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...Faon M. O’Connor ’06, co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee, agreed that there was room for improvement, citing the large amounts of recyclable items that were found in dumpsters in the annual random rubbish sampling by the Resource Efficiency Program (REP). “That particularly showed that we’re still throwing out a lot of materials that we need to be recycling,” she said. Gogan said that it was not all student or even university waste, however, but that neighbours or construction sites will use the Harvard...
...easy fixes to high gas prices. "There is not a panacea of short-term solutions to the [gasoline] price situation today because it's a demand-driven price," said House Energy Committee chairman Joe Barton, Republican from Texas, at a news conference Wednesday. House Ways and Means committee member Rep. Jim McCrery of Louisiana concurred: "I don?t think there?s any magic political solution." And Congressman Adam Putnam of Florida, a member of the House Republican leadership, says that at a bipartisan House and Senate meeting on gas prices with President Bush on Wednesday, all the participants from both...
...moment, the only kind of "solutions" Americans are likely to see coming out of Washington are little more than political gestures. Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico, a Republican in a close House race this November, sponsored a bill increasing the punishment for price gouging by oil companies - although few if any examples of price gouging have been discovered in the latest round of price hikes - and it sailed through the House. Asked whether gas prices might be reduced if Congress publicly encouraged people to conserve, one Wilson staffer replied, "I think you kind of have a natural solution...
...thing Republicans on the Hill want to see more of from the White House is jawboning. "The Administration, especially the Energy department, needs to have a more aggressive information campaign," said Rep. Putnam. "They need to reassure the public. We need to have a barrage of administration officials out there carrying the message." As long as the message isn't "Conserve...
...chief Rob Portman, and the economics policy guy Al Hubbard all have in common? They were all up-and-comers somewhere deep in 41's domestic policy operation: Bolten worked on trade, Portman worked on policy in general and Hubbard was deep into deregulation. Susan Schwab, the new trade rep, was a rising star at the Commerce Department in those days...