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...MIT’s Media Lab—which aims to find ways to utilize technology to improve quality of life—and biotech companies to craft her strategies for promoting entrepreneurship and economic development. Additionally, Royal will meet with a number of faculty members, including economist Amartya Sen and historian of France Stanley Hoffmann. Goldhammer said he thinks Royal’s meetings with professors is part of her attempt to seek advice in rebuilding the Left. “She may be looking to constitute a sort of brain trust, like Sarkozy put together in conjunction with...
...really do something about it: Congress. But that began to change in 2007, and nowhere more so than in the Senate's key committee on the environment and public works, which drafts much of the country's environmental legislation. Up until last January, the committee was chaired by Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a Republican who memorably called global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." When the Democrats took over Congress in the 2006 midterm elections, however, the chairperson's gavel was handed over to Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, and the floodgates opened. Boxer began...
Hours and hours of hearings finally led to a legislative breakthrough in December: the passage out of the committee of the first bill that would put carbon caps on the U.S. economy. Co-sponsored by the Republican Sen. John Warner and the Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the America's Climate Security Act would cap U.S. carbon emissions at 15% below 2005 levels by 2020, with a 70% cut projected for 2050. If enacted, those carbon caps would all but force U.S. businesses to invest in cleaner technology and greater energy efficiency, and would help the country take a leadership role...
...politician, the spat over his honesty couldn't have come at a worse time. While McCain succeeded in bringing Iraq to the fore, the flare-up between the two threatens to undo the relatively positive round of coverage that followed high-profile endorsements from Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. Mel Martinez...
...that not only is McCain inexperienced when it comes to the economy, the policies he does endorse are wrong-headed and, worst of all, not conservative. This morning saw a 6:00 AM press conference in which the governor railed against the "climate stewardship" legislation sponsored by McCain and Sen. Joe Lieberman (who is stumping for his old friend here). Romney called it "an expensive bill for the people of Florida" whose effect on the environment would be "symbolic." (The McCain campaign points out that as governor, Romney touted a similar, regional approach to greenhouse gases as "good for business...