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Key to the gathering opposition to the regime has been the role played by independent journalists, who have persistently exposed its failings. Chikowore is an accredited journalist with Zimbabwe's Media and Information Commission. He was arrested on 16 April in Warren Park township in Harare, a day after a...
Local newspapers ran editorials opposing it. Utah Congressman Jim Matheson co-sponsored legislation that would stop LLRW importation altogether. And then came what may have been the deathblow. As public pressure mounted, Utah governor Jon Huntsman, who initially supported the plan, vowed to quash it. He ordered the state's...
Creamer says EnergySolutions has no plans to import foreign LLRW "wholesale" from Europe and pledged to limit its foreign intake in Utah to 5% of the facility's capacity. Still, says EnergySolutions senior vice president Jill Sigal, "If there are isolated instances where we can help other countries... that's...
In any case, the Commission plans to tighten the criteria to ensure that biofuel production is sustainable, including a stipulation that it represent a 35% carbon saving compared to oil. Fischer Boel sets much store on the shift from first wave of biofuels (made from wheat, maize, colza, sugar beet...
Kyoto isn't working. As the European Commission itself admits, western Europe is likely to miss its Kyoto targets. So is Japan. Carbon trading is widely acknowledged as a failure. The first phase of the E.U.'s Emission Trading Scheme did not produce either a workable market in carbon or...