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...proposal isn't getting much support. Richard Shuster, a Miami attorney who writes the Florida Foreclosure Defense blog, notes that foreclosed properties are often uninhabitable. "Homeowners in foreclosure or thieves after foreclosure often strip homes of appliances, fixtures, air conditioners, and anything else of value, including hurricane shutters," he says. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not considering such a measure. "Under FEMA's mission of sheltering disaster survivors, this is not an option that we would utilize," agency spokesman Clark Stevens says...
...according to many energy experts - including Steven Chu, Obama's Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary - the science isn't there yet. Significant basic research and development needs to happen before renewables can truly displace fossil fuels. And unlike at the time of the first Apollo project, the U.S. seems far from ready to spend the money needed to create long-term solutions to global warming - which risks the country falling behind in this new scientific race toward a clean-energy economy. "If we are serious about delivering the real technological change needed to really reduce emissions, we need to scale...
...Pacific vortex isn't the only one. The Atlantic and Indian oceans, which have different current patterns, have plastic gyres of their own. Since these massive hoards of plastic come to float in international waters - and the vortices are far from land - no government is willing to take on the expense and difficulty of cleaning them up. The best solution is simply to stop adding to them by using less plastic and recycling it when we do. Currently, more than 60 billion tons of plastic are produced each year, and less than 5% of that is ever recycled. Much...
...Woodring hopes that Project Kaisei will awaken people to the fact that the plastic they throw in the garbage doesn't just disappear. "Anyone who has ever been on the beach and seen plastic debris can understand this," he says. "This isn't like glacial melting or tropical deforestation, which might not be in your home territory. This is something that everyone can see and touch and make a difference...
Trout, Robert • closing arguments of in bribery trial of former Rep. William Jefferson suggest that client of has been punished enough by losing his seat and becoming "the object of a national joke about money in the freezer," and besides, everyone in Congress is corrupt so isn't it a little unfair to single out this one guy just because his illegal demands for money were caught on tape...