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...carbon emissions is the only viable way to mitigate the effects of climate change. The problem “is too hard to take on sector by sector politically,” he said. “The only lever big enough is to change the price of fossil fuel.”Some of McKibben’s audiences throughout the week only conditionally accepted his assertion.“I agree about the urgency of the crisis, but the only thing that holds a lot of promise is being open-minded to a lot of solutions?...
...layer of peat, an extremely combustible material, provides ready fuel for ravaging wildfires. These fires could drive carbon emissions higher still, Moorcroft said...
...cries for help. All week long, Senators and Representatives from both parties have lamented the decades of bad management that have put the auto industry in its current predicament: investing in SUVs when the rest of the world, eyeing the future oil crunch, was betting on smaller, more fuel-efficient cars; spending millions lobbying Congress to avoid regulation that would force tougher environmental standards; and giving its union unsustainably generous deals on salary and benefits that hobbled its ability to compete with Japanese and European carmakers. And the answers to these criticisms from the Big Three CEOs at two hearings...
...George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended that the money should instead come from the $700 billion financial-bailout fund. The deal would include strict limits on golden parachutes for executives and a timeline to pay back Congress...
...more competitive auto industry." For its part, Ford, which is the strongest of the Big Three and, many believe, capable of surviving the fallout from a GM bankruptcy, said, "We have a great plan that will continue Ford's transformation into a lean, profitable company that delivers the safe, fuel-efficient, high-quality new products that our customers want and value...