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Despite not-bad first-half financial results, these are cautious times for Roberts and his son Brian, 49, the corporation's CEO. Cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable (which is being spun off from Time Warner Inc., TIME's parent) are getting competition from all directions. As Brian Roberts put it in a speech that said as much about Comcast as it did about his industry, "There have been moments in time when cable has been at a major inflection point. This is one of those moments...
...Europe’s leadership role in environmental issues, including the 2005 implementation of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme, the world’s largest emissions trading system. Dimas pointed out that the United States lags far behind in respect to environmental legislation. He said that the Lieberman-Warner bill, which would have implemented a carbon cap and trade emissions scheme much in the same vein as that of the EU but was voted down in the Senate this summer, would have been a “very important effort.” Dimas also discussed a self-imposed...
...promoting green jobs at a time when unemployment is on the rise.) The challenge will be tactical: convincing Americans that curbing climate change is as much about overhauling a failed economy as it is about limiting carbon emissions. That message didn't get across during the debates over Lieberman-Warner; the next President and Congress will need to do better. "Addressing greenhouse gases and addressing the economy are all part of the same problem," says Barbour. "This is absolutely a top priority. It can't be postponed forever...
...rising gas prices outplayed fears of melting Arctic ice, the Republican call to "drill, baby, drill" got louder and more popular, eventually pushing Democrats, including Barack Obama, to publicly support some amount of offshore drilling. The flip-flopping came on the heels of the Senate's defeat of the Warner-Lieberman bill - the first real attempt to pass federal cap-and-trade legislation - thanks in part to fears raised by Republicans that a carbon cap would further increase energy prices. "America's growing dependence on fossil fuels, once viewed as a Democratic trump card...has become a lodestone instead," wrote...
...they may be a little too sanguine about their prospects in the former Confederate capital. True, the auguries are favorable—Democrats can now claim control of the state legislature, two successive governorships, and almost certainly two seats in the Senate after the retirement of the lapidary John Warner this fall...