Take corn out of the tank and put it back on the table. - Obama and the Environment: What He Can Do: Ethanol Reform

It is time to take a hard look at the carbon [dioxide hoax scam swindle bad-weather-preventing] benefits of corn ethanol and its impacts on food prices around the world," says Jonathan Foley, the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota.

Farewell, Obama's "Green Dream Team"

With Chu's departure, there will be only one person left from Obama's original "Green Dream Team [7]," a term environmental groups endowed upon [8] the president's appointees to key departments. Green jobs guru Van Jones is long gone [9]. Climate "czar" Carol Browner resigned two years ago [10], and the special post created for her was dissolved a few months later [11]. Jane Lubchenco, the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said she plans to depart [12] in February. EPA head Lisa Jackson also announced her plans [13] to leave the agency at the end of December. And earlier this week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signaled that he, too, is signing off