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...plants are not only damaging to the planet today; future attempts to decrease their impact are neither environmentally nor financially viable.In the end, the six conference committee members currently reviewing Massachusetts’s energy bill are faced with three possibilities. Should they maintain incentives for gasification, they can limit emissions to natural gas levels, thereby compromising the meaning of green energy. They could also require unconditional carbon sequestration, a provision hinted at in the Senate bill but unrealistic without much more time, research, and development. But there is a third, cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative, for legislators...
...face-to-face at the final table. Several big-name poker players appear as themselves in the film, including Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari. Actress Jennifer Tilly, who won the 2005 Ladies No Limit Hold’em competition, plays Karen “Razor” Jones. Although she is only featured in a few scenes, Tilly gives by far the best performance in the film, using her acting skills and gambling know-how to capture the sassiness and charisma of a professional poker player...
...recent NCAA basketball championship game featured 270 seconds of beer commercials—breaching the self-imposed limit of 120 seconds—and has now forced the moral compasses of higher education to intercede...
...pessimistic," Roberto Scaringella told the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper last month. "There's a limit to the amount of construction. And to the motorization too. But the consequence is that we are going to have to learn to live with longer traffic jams...
...install expensive SO2 and NO scrubbers, but that might not be efficient. To Sandor, the answer was clear: markets. He wrote a position paper for a green group arguing for the creation of a cap-and-trade system for acid rain, one that would put a government-mandated limit on the level of pollutants power plants and factories could emit, but allow companies that came in under the limit to trade their excess capacity to companies that exceeded their caps. The market drives companies to be ever more efficient in cutting pollution, because pollution becomes a recognizable cost. "You commoditize...