The New York Times today reports how “Legislation to control global warming that once had a passionate but quixotic ring to it is now serious business” in Washington. The Democrats are increasingly determined to impose the mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions, with our major Democratic bills have been announced, with more expected”.
Day: January 18, 2007
Five Minutes to Midnight
The clock is ticking. Yesterday the “Doomsday Clock”, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 at the dawn of the nuclear age, was moved forward from its present seven minutes to midnight, where it has stood since 2002, to five minutes to the Domesday hour. The scientists have decided to move … Read More
The Billion Dollar Plunder
A top Interior Department official was told nearly three years ago about a legal blunder that allowed oil companies to avoid billions of dollars in payments for oil and gas pumped from publicly owned waters in the US. According to the New York Times a report by the department’s chief independent investigator, suggests that Interior … Read More