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...Washington. The House of Representatives has already passed a cap-and-trade bill, but the going will be tougher in the Senate, where supporters will need to get 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster. Already, conservative Democrats - especially from the coal-dependent states of the Midwest and South - have made noises about opposing a cap-and-trade bill or perhaps replacing it with a law that would include wider support for clean energy but without the price on carbon. That, however, might not be enough to kick-start scaled-up clean-energy investments. "Without...
Members of the HCC—along with the Harvard African Students Association, the Harvard Haitian Alliance, the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, the Harvard South Asian Men’s Collective, the Harvard Undergraduate Council, as well as many more student and community organizations—have their minds set on a tangible response...
...come up with an effective way to arbitrate this maritime dispute. In 2002, China signed a code of conduct with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Vietnam is a member, pledging to refrain from activities that would destabilize the fragile status quo in the South China Sea. Few parties have kept to the spirit of the agreement. The Spratlys, an island chain far larger than the Paracels, are claimed by China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and nominally by Taiwan, and resemble a Risk game board with territories grabbed pell-mell over the years in a scramble...
...Walking such a precarious tightrope means Hanoi - as well as other governments claiming the Spratlys and the Paracels - have to measure their actions carefully. "The real risk in the South China Sea," says Emmers, "is that of a miscalculation that could lead to skirmishes and a clash of arms." As signs of meaningful cooperation are few, most expect this tacit consolidation of interests - including China's economic expansion into the Paracels - to continue. How this chess game plays out may have broader ramifications as the Chinese military extends its clout and influence in the coming decades. "It's an interesting...
...Terence McElroy, a full assessment won't be known for days or weeks, but "we hear anecdotally that there has been substantial losses in tropical fish, significant damage to the fern industry, and citrus - especially in the northern counties - has sustained damage." The same is true, he says, in South Florida for vegetables like tomatoes and peppers. "Will it be 10%? Twenty percent? Forty percent? We just don't know," says McElroy, "but we are expecting serious damage to various sectors of the industry." (See pictures of the world's farmlands...