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...Canadian citizen seeking other types of visas for full-time employment in the United States. Chan said that she is pursuing a TN-1 visa that allows Canadian citizens to work in the United States for a one-year period. “Especially now that the cap has already been filled, none of these initiatives amount to anything material,” Chan said about the efforts by the UC and the College. “I think this is now the time to get creative with your employers.” Dimitris Lagias ’07 also...
...kernels of corn. DuPont hopes to more than double its revenue from nondepletable resources, to $8 billion by 2015. The company has also cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 72% since 1990 and is aiming for more. That puts DuPont in position to respond nimbly if Washington eventually acts to cap carbon. "We learned that we have to be ahead of legislation," says Linda Fisher, DuPont's chief sustainability officer, a title of growing significance in corporate America. "That is truer today than it was 20 years...
...bill was soundly defeated that year and in 2005 suffered an even worse Senate smackdown, 60 to 38. With a new Congress in place, McCain and Lieberman will try again. This time they will face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House of Representatives...
...embattled President may decide that vetoing a piece of broadly popular legislation is not a fight worth picking now, especially since corporations see value in it. Kristin Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, will not rule out the President's signing onto cap-and-trade or any other green bill. "It's a bit premature to have that conversation," she says...
...curb emissions from power plants--the coal burned in Pennsylvania, after all, doesn't pause at the New Jersey state line. In 2003 then Governor George Pataki of New York launched the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a confederation of northeastern and mid-Atlantic states that has created its own cap-and-trade program, with the goal of reducing emissions 10% below the current level by 2019. Nine states are part of the group, with Maryland set to join in June. In February five Western states embraced a similarly ambitious goal...