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Given that intent, it is hardly surprising that Washington has had such a difficult time formulating a successful Iran policy. Right now, the Obama Administration is embarking on the sanctions track, pursuing both a U.N. Security Council resolution, as well as measures by a coalition of the willing that would go beyond anything imposed by the U.N. The idea is that a tough sanction regime would hit the Iranian government - and especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guards - while sparing Iran's population. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
...despite what they say, few in Washington believe sanctions alone will alter Iran's behavior. They have never worked as well as they might in Iran; rhetoric has only served to raise tensions further. The experience of the Bush Administration shows that the combination of sanctions and rhetoric about regime change - remember the "Axis of Evil?" - helped strengthen the hands of Iran's hard-liners. It vindicated Tehran's paranoia and reduced options available to the U.S. If the Iranian regime thinks that the real aim of U.S. policy is to topple it, it is hardly likely to make...
...Ohio, and nearly half of the electricity used by Americans is powered by coal. Despite ongoing talk of a new clean energy economy - "Whoever builds a clean energy economy...is going to own the 21st-century global economy," President Barack Obama said at a meeting of governors in Washington in February - coal is too plentiful in the U.S. to be abandoned. The International Energy Agency projects that global demand for coal will increase 53% between 2007 and 2030, and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has said that coal will continue to be a valuable domestic source of energy, especially...
...halt the burying of streams with coal debris, which would block further contamination. The EPA does not have the authority to regulate mountaintop mining, but it is responsible for preventing the practice from affecting water quality, said EPA administrator Lisa Jackson at the National Press Club in Washington. The EPA will "try to minimize, if not end, any environmental degradation to the water" caused by mining, she said. "We fight for clean water under the Clean Water Act. So our role is limited to ensuring that these [mining] projects, if they're approved, do not have a detrimental impact...
Students who originally only considered firms in Washington, D.C. or New York have had to look at other cities across the country, Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet said...