gristmill.grist.org - 12/19/2008
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"World demand for transportation fuels is growing fast, and biofuels have a major role to play in meeting that demand. That's why BP is investing in a range of biofuels-related activities around the world, all aimed at bringing biofuels into the mainstream by making them more widely available to ...
gristmill.grist.org - 12/18/2008
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People are saying that Ray LaHood, a downstate
Illinois Republican representative, may get the nod for DOT...
. So far, the things mentioned as being in his favor are -- friendship with the president-elect and his chief of staff, some pro-Amtrak votes, ...
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Ray, it ain't so | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org - 12/17/2008
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Salazar What does Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar's likely
appointment to head the Department of Interior mean for...
environmental and energy policy? A few episodes from his congressional career may shed some light. Salazar has only been in the Senate since ...
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Transition talk: Any which way you Ken | Gristmill: The ...
gristmill.grist.org - 12/19/2008
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holdren.jpg Science magazine is reporting , "Strong indications
are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John...
Holdren to be the president's science adviser." I have known Holdren for over a decade and have discussed energy/climate ...
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Obama's strongest message on climate yet | Gristmill: ...
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Maybe Vilsack Won't Suck?
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... , IT'S HAPPENING NOW (apologies for invoking Wolf Blitzer.) And don't forget the biofuel boondoggle. Clearly, corn-based ethanol-- which Vilsack endorses--is a lose-lose proposition; it's not going to solve our energy problems, and it's exacerbating the global food crisis. What about cellulosic biofuels? Vilsack and Stephen Chu, Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Energy, are all gung-ho about those cowpie-in-the-sky fuels-of-the-future, too. But Tom Philpott's written a compelling post over on Grist about the folly of emphasizing biofuels over more low-impact energy sources ...
Maybe Vilsack Won't Suck?
Open Left - Front Page —
... And don't forget the biofuel boondoggle. Clearly, corn-based ethanol--which Vilsack endorses--is a lose-lose proposition; it's not going to solve our energy problems, and it's exacerbating the global food crisis. What about cellulosic biofuels? Vilsack and Stephen Chu, Obama's newly appointed Secretary of Energy, are all gung-ho about those cowpie-in-the-sky fuels-of-the-future, too. But Tom Philpott's written a compelling post over on Grist about the folly of emphasizing biofuels over more low-impact energy sources, conservation, and public transportation. ...
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Bush hosts Abbas in farewell visit —
msnbc.com: Politics 12/19/2008
President George W. Bush and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are assessing the stalled U.S.-backed negotiations with Israel that will almost certainly fail to meet a year-end deadline for a peace deal.
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