The Green Files > US Lawmakers Block Crippling Climate Change Bill

China Confidentialhttp://chinaconfidential.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-lawmakers-block-crippling-climate.html [China Confidential] He also blasted the Senate move as a "failure of our politics and a failure of leadership -- a president who for years denied the problem, and a Republican nominee, John McCain, who claims leadership on the issue but opposes this bipartisan bill."

Previous [Previous] Lecturers’ Union UCU will press colleges and universit...

Next [Next] President Obama on the Environment...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Gristmillhttp://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/6/2/12015/02429 [Gristmill] Blast from the future: Regarding McCain's "central facts," the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization, which helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- co-winner, with Al Gore, of the Nobel Prize -- says global temperatures have not risen in a decade. So Congress might be arriving late at the save-the-planet party.

Wired: Threat Levelhttp://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired27b/~3/288230944/mccain-surrogat.html [Wired: Threat Level] Carly Fiorina: McCain's Environmental Policy Is Distinct From ...: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is scheduled to discuss the specifics of his position on global climate change Monday, as well as his support for a bipartisan landmark climate change bill currently moving through .

Docudharma - Front Page[Docudharma - Front Page] Four at Four: From the fall of 2004 through 2006, the report said, NASA's public affairs office "managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public." It noted elsewhere that "news releases in the areas of climate change suffered from inaccuracy, factual insufficiency, and scientific dilution."

Marion in Savannahhttp://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/dowd-kristof-and-rich-11/ [Marion in Savannah] Dowd, Kristof and Rich: After conceding that the Philly debate was tough, he brushed the imaginary lint of Hillary, George and Charlie from his shoulders, in a wordless reference to Jay-Z’s lyrics in his anthem about not letting anyone crimp your ride as you cruise from the bottom to the top: “Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me.”

sphsapenglishhttp://sphsapenglish.livejournal.com/113150.html [sphsapenglish] NYT Column- 4/20/08- Our Favorite Planet: In the best of worlds, it will be enormously difficult to persuade China and India to rely less on coal-fired power plants, and it will be utterly impossible unless we take serious steps ourselves.

David Corn[David Corn] Looking to Go Green, McCain Calls Bush a Shirker: MCCAIN: You know, one of the things I regret more than anything else when we ever hear there’s a chance of conflict or a possibility of a conflict, is we always re-visit the Vietnam War as some sort of role model when, in fact, the model of the Vietnam War is exactly what not to do in the conduct of war, including actions on the part of Congress. But to say that there was, quote, “fifty-two thousand casualties in the surgical strikes of North Vietnam” is just darn foolishness.

World News at dxinginfo.Comhttp://world-news.dxinginfo.com/2008/06/rci-cyberjournal_05.html [World News at dxinginfo.Com] RCI Cyberjournal: The target would be roughly in line with Canada's commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, commitments which the Conservatives denounce as unattainable. The legislation is a private-member's bill introduced by NDP leader Jack Layton, who declined how to speculate how or if the opposition could force the Conservatives to adopt the bill's emissions target.

illinoisreview[illinoisreview] GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - May 23, 2008: -- DIERSEN HEADLINE: Outrageously, for many decades, especially in Illinois, RINOs have worked with Democrats to galvanize voters against conservatism. Outrageously, the Democrat Party controlled NBC5 again uses quotes from Dillard to promote Democrat Obama. 

java[java] corporate media content to let right wing pundits gleefully attack ...: a collapsing economy, the never-ending war in Iraq, global climate change. Yet we watch as the networks loop Rev.

Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily Newshttp://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/?p=740 [Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: By Juliet Eilperin, WashPost, May 12, 2008. “McCain has made the environment one of the key elements of his presidential bid.

Cindy's Zone 2http://cindyszone2unitedstates.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!59D7950B50FE41B3!386.entry [Cindy's Zone 2] Links 32: 911 Amateur - Google VideoLoose Change Final CutMcCain pledges to combat climate change | US | ReutersIran says to sue US and Britain over mosque blast | US | ReutersRice prices rising despite record world crop | Markets | Hot Stocks ...

Docudharma - Front Page[Docudharma - Front Page] Weekend News Digest: Washington - At the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, military guards called their sleep-disruption efforts for detainees the "frequent-flier program." This involved constant cell changes meant to disrupt prisoners' rest and lower their resistance to interrogations.

Iraq War Today[Iraq War Today] In Today's News - Friday, May 23, 2008: Terrorism Suspected in UK Restaurant Blast Other Military News Pregnant Wife of Marine Pictured in Taliban Firefight Says She Feared Labor Every $10 oil rise ups Air Force costs $610 million Senate approves $165 billion in new war money .

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, , , , , ,