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...pooh-poohed energy conservation and apparently met in secret with energy-company executives to create the country's energy policy; and President George W. Bush, who reneged on his campaign promise to regulate carbon output. Krauthammer could also report his own carbon output and compare his efforts to curb global warming with those of Gore. (The Rev.) Kenneth Reeves, CONCORD, MASS...
...targets. One credit worth of extra pollution from a dirty company is offset by one credit worth of extra cleanliness from a more environmentally conscious company, and the clean company is paid for its effort too. This is just the kind of strategy that was implemented in 1990 to curb sulfur dioxide--the leading cause of acid rain--and has resulted in a 35% reduction of the pollutant since...
States are also joining hands to 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...
...Bautista's homecoming is a small but important victory in the battle to curb illegal immigration - not at the border, but at its source in the dusty recesses of impoverished rural Mexico. The nation's massive labor migration - what President Felipe Calderon calls his country's "open wound" - was a top agenda item during his recent meeting with President George W. Bush. But if Bush was serious when he said "the working poor of Latin America need change," then many feel the U.S. should start helping burgs like Santa Cruz build the kind of small enterprises that can jump-start...
...employers can follow students through Google and other Web sites, Kagan added in her e-mail that the derogatory posts could cause “repeated damage to their lives and careers.” Aside from Kagan’s note, the Law School could do little to curb the use of the message board and was not in a position to determine the identities of the anonymous posters, Dean of Students Ellen M. Cosgrove said. “There’s really nothing else that Harvard Law School can do,” she said...