Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Romney calls for an end to key wind energy credit | Grist
Shawn McCoy, a spokesman for Romney’s Iowa campaign, told The Des Moines Register, “He will allow the wind credit to expire, end the stimulus boondoggles, and create a level playing field on which all sources of energy can compete on their merits.”
Watch Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News on Obama/EPA War on Coal: 'U.S. has 3 & half times the coal reserves as we do shale gas. We have 27% of world's coal reserves' | Climate Depot
'Since 1970s the pollutants from coal have been reduced 90% due to technology & modernization. Since 1970s we have radically improved our air & water quality while at the same time had massive increases in population & economic growth. The states that use the most coal have the cheapest electricity costs. The next war will be on natural gas fracking, once they achieve shutting down coal plants. They go after energy that works'
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Conspiracy of silence: The irresponsible politics of climate change | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Both presidential candidates are maintaining the conspiracy of silence, abandoning citizens and future generations to the relentless onslaught of global warming. This political tactic must be challenged. The environmental movement should redouble its efforts to move climate change onto the presidential agenda.

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