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Oberstar Asks Coast Guard to Delay Cape Wind Ruling
[Cross-posted at Red, Green, and Blue] In what must have triggered a collective moan of ‘are you kidding me?’ from environmentalists and renewable energy advocates across the country and the world, Minnesota Representative Jim Oberstar, a Democrat, has asked the United States Coast Guard to delay its final recommendations on the proposed Cape Wind project. [...]
Mayors Sign Climate Agreement, Santa Claus Ponders Gifts [cartoon]
It’s been a while since we brought you one from RG&B resident cartoonist Joe Mohr. In this beauty, Mohr makes note of a recent article that reported 902 mayors recently signed the Climate Protection Agreement–a pledge to meet the standards set by the Kyoto Protocol. Mohr ponders who signed, who didn’t, and what they might [...]
This Is the Reality of Clean Coal
Watching The Daily Show last night, I was just about to exercise the most satisfying part of having a TiVo (fast forwarding through commercials) when an ad began to play, mocking the elusive technology of “clean coal.” In the ad itself, our hero in the commercial promises to take us on a tour of a [...]
