Word: warner
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...intransigence of the powerful studios reminds me of studio honcho Jack Warner's alleged declaration that his staff writers were "schmucks with Underwoods." Considering that dismissal, he probably thought of Mozart as a schmuck with a piano. It might also be fair to say that Mr. Warner was just a schmuck with a Rolodex, which is much easier to operate than a piano or even--land sake's alive!--an Underwood...
...environmental forum held Nov. 17 in Los Angeles, many of the green activists in the audience expected John Edwards to come out gunning for Hillary Clinton. All he had to do was challenge her to join him in opposing Lieberman-Warner because it would give away billions to heavily polluting industries. Edwards had denounced the bill as a "corporate windfall," but Clinton--who serves on the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee and will soon have to vote on it--hadn't taken a position. The day before, Friends of the Earth Action, which has endorsed Edwards, started running...
...give Edwards credit for holding fire, and feel the hot, dry winds blowing on this issue. They got Virginia Republican Warner's attention when business leaders like GE CEO Jeff Immelt came out in favor of mandatory caps on carbon emissions, a move that also blew down the straw house of the deny-and-delay crowd. The legislation that Warner has written with Lieberman, an Independent, combines elements of earlier, stillborn bills, and it won crucial backing from California Senator Barbara Boxer, Democratic chairwoman of the Environment Committee. "This is an election issue," she says. "Voters need to know which...
...trade system envisioned by Lieberman-Warner, in which government sets emissions limits and auctions or gives away pollution allowances that can then be bought and sold, would raise billions for energy investment by imposing billions in new costs on polluters. Who pays, how much is paid and who gets to spend those billions will be one of the great political battles of this generation. Naturally, some business interests want to delay the day of reckoning, and they're making common cause with some green groups that don't think it's possible to get a strong enough bill through this...
...election may not go the Democrats' way. If they grab defeat from the jaws of victory, Republicans could lose the incentive to cut a climate deal. Second, fixing the climate is like saving for retirement--the longer we wait, the harder it gets. That's not to say Lieberman-Warner is perfect. Its emissions targets should be tougher, and it gives away too many pollution allowances for free. But let's dream for a moment. If it manages to pass both houses of Congress (a mighty big if), the bill would land with a thud on George W. Bush...