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...didn't make it out of the full Senate. The U.S. has a new, greener President, but the sheer number of legislative priorities sitting on his desk could make cap and trade impossible to achieve this year. That doesn't mean Copenhagen will come and go without a deal, but, under the pressure to get something on paper, it's possible the summit will produce a watered down agreement insufficient to the scale of the challenge posed by climate change. "It's not just the question of having a deal, but an ambitious deal," says Hedegaard. "We need to come...
When former Vice President Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill on Jan. 28 to testify for the need for a new global deal on carbon emissions, he spoke from personal experience: In 1997 Gore helped guide the Kyoto Protocol to completion in Japan - but back at home, knowing the treaty lacked support, the Clinton Administration never brought it to a vote in the U.S. Senate...
...when Schrag asked the Rising Tide representatives to leave the stage. Before the disruption, Leer promoted clean coal technologies, such as Carbon Storage and Sequestration as a means of balancing increasing global demand for electricity with a need to stabilize atmospheric carbon levels. “I try to deal with facts, I was trained as an engineer. Let’s not let the perfect get in the way of the good.” Leer said. “If you really want to stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we have to develop carbon sequestration tactics...
...secure as much support as possible for the controversial aid package, Obama did not rule out Republican proposals to use a fund set up in early 2008 to modernize the industry rather than TARP money - a move Pelosi vehemently opposed. Pelosi was forced to swallow a compromise, though that deal died in the Senate and ultimately President Bush used money from the bank bailout to help Detroit. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
Nevertheless, few Brits in positions of power to boost the U.K.'s capacity to deal more efficiently with snow believe that further investment is warranted. A poll, to be published tomorrow on the website PoliticsHome.com, of 100 Westminster politicians and other influential figures will reveal a big majority against the proposition that "it is time for Britain to invest in snow preparedness." More than three quarters of respondents believe that snowfalls like this one are so rare - this week's fall was the biggest in 18 years - that buying additional equipment would be a waste of money. That doesn...