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...auto brands would qualify, foreign or domestic.) A 25% improvement would be enough to make buying a new car a good deal for the planet as well as Detroit. "If the public is going to subsidize these auto purchases, then the public should get a benefit through oil savings and a reduction in greenhouse gases," says Brian Siu, an energy policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council's air and energy program...
...mayor’s extended statement against the proposal, discussion among the committee members prior to the vote was brief. Simmons told the committee that she opposed the proposal because it had been introduced at an inappropriate time, not because she did not support the programs it would benefit. She also said that she thought it would be unfair to consider restoring funding for only these specific groups this late in the process. “To do it for one group means you should do it for all,” she said...
...being the first American city to implement an underground subway system, and, at a time when easing the burden we put on the environment is a major priority, it is an inopportune moment to cut back on service. Many major cities today still lack robust public transportation, and to benefit its citizens and lower energy usage we need to increase, rather than curtail, mass-transit programs. It is understandable that in these tough economic times money has to come from somewhere, but alternative sources do exist. A legislative proposal that is still pending approval by the Massachusetts State Legislature calls...
University officials said yesterday that they have reversed preliminary budget guidance that would have prevented new programs from tapping a recently created source of additional endowment funding in the next fiscal year. The decision to continue allowing new initiatives to benefit from the strategic payout program—which grants high-priority projects across the University modest increases in endowment funding—came shortly after schools received notice that only programs already receiving the funding would be eligible to use strategic payout funds next year. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers originally conceived the program to up the payout...
...prosecutors got another benefit from tying the case with Cellini's. One of Blagojevich's attorneys, Terence Gillespie, also happens to be representing Cellini. Because of the conflict of interest, Gillespie had to step down from the former governor's defense team. That made him the second high-profile defense lawyer to drop Blagojevich since the saga began. Gillespie's partner, renowned Chicago criminal defender Ed Genson, left the case in late January after becoming frustrated that Blagojevich wouldn't heed his advice to stop giving interviews. Before he gave up the case, Genson complained that the surreal atmosphere...