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Japan power firms pay $1 billion for CO2 [swindle] credits in 08/09 | Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's power firms paid a combined 100.1 billion yen, or $1 billion, for carbon credits in the year that ended on March 31, their annual earnings reports showed, giving investors a rare glimpse into how much utilities are spending to offset their own carbon emissions.

Is Cap and Trade Deadly to Elected Officials? - State Journal - STATEJOURNAL.com

The self-preservationists on Capitol Hill are ready to save our way of life in West Virginia, whether they like it or not.

Expedience is one of the top characteristics of a multi-term legislator, or appropriator as Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., likes to call it. No matter which, centrist Democrats in Congress are getting scared of being too close to the Waxman-Markey bill making the rounds.

As we've warned in this space since before the last even-numbered election year, doing the wrong thing for the voters' wallets on the environment is going to turn some legislators back into pumpkins soon.

Neodymium: The truth

Neodymium is a crucial material for build lightweight permanent magnets “that make the Prius motors zoom” and are needed for the generators of wind mills as well. In fact, the present production of neodymium would have to be doubled in order to make just a few million electric cars. The main pit for neodymium in the US, California’s Mountain Pass, has recently been closed after a series of leaks released hundreds of thousands of gallons of radioactive waste into the environment. The dirty little secret of green cars and windmills is that the neodymium has to be yielded from rare-earth ore, which are regularly contaminated with radioactive thorium.

So much for the green ideologues and main stream media hypocrites who don’t accept nuclear energy with zero CO2 emission as clean energy.