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This past Saturday, Congress’s best chance to enact considerable climate legislation anytime soon received a devastating blow. Citing his concern over Democrats’ focus on immigration reform, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham withdrew his support for a climate-change bill that was supposed to be announced on Monday. Although it is certainly Sen. Graham’s right to be upset over the Democrats' decision to also begin discussions on a new immigration bill, choosing to pull support, especially when the bill was so close to being formally introduced and stood a good chance of passing...
While this bill is certainly progressive, it does not—as far as the public knows—contain provisions to fully curb emissions, in addition to other measures that would slow the rate of climate change. Even if the current bill passes, Congress should focus on crafting and passing an even stronger bill to protect our environment. Following the global response to climate change in Copenhagen, the U.S. still lags behind its European counterparts in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions; while European countries are offering to cut pollution by 30 percent below 1990 levels, the U.S. commitment totals only...
...contest is representative of the Business’s School focus on entrepreneurship, wrote Business School spokesman James E. Aisner ’68 in an e-mail...
...according to Odum, there is no reason why the traditional energy industries should not focus on changing the present systems of energy supply...
When an audience member asked Jovanotti what cause he fought for most adamantly, he was quick to answer that his main focus was combating poverty...