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...things the state commissions are likely to discuss is whether to follow the lead of Kentucky, which requires companies that sell homeowners insurance to offer earthquake insurance without question. In the meantime, however, State Farm, the nation's leading home insurer, has imposed a 30-day moratorium on new earthquake-insurance policies in much of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...
...fund-raising dinner in Edmonton for his party faithful, two Greenpeace activists rappelled from the ceiling of a hall, unveiling a banner that read $TELMACH: THE BEST PREMIER OIL MONEY CAN BUY. It was Greenpeace's typically great political theater, but Stelmach won't entertain any cries for a moratorium on new projects...
Many legal observers saw the court's decision as a victory for those who see the death penalty appeals process as a seemingly endless and cynical abuse of the system. (Death row appeals had been taking an average of approximately 12 years even before the seven-month national moratorium on executions preceding the decision.) But it was also a victory for that subset of prisoners who have waived all their appeals, fired their lawyers and written letters to governors begging for an execution date. These "volunteers" constitute 11% of executions nationwide, and will continue to dominate both the headlines...
...Supreme Court ruling has had some immediate effect: those who were near their dates before the seven-month moratorium are now being quickly lined up for execution. Georgia put murderer William Earl Lynd to death on May 6. But this resolution of the lethal injection fight won't speed up the system in the long run. There will still be a deep well of public and legal opposition that will fund new challenges to capital punishment, just as there were decades of challenges and moratoriums long before questions arose about lethal injection...
...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 to remove incentives for coal gasification altogether. Massachusetts’s Senators in Washington have proposed a moratorium on all new coal-fired plants, and the state legislature should act consistently with their example.Coal is a dirty source of energy. Coal-fired power plants are responsible for one-third of global CO2 emissions. For all its pretensions to being environmentally friendly, gasified coal is still coal...