gristmill.grist.org - 2/18/2009
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Someday, everyone will agree with me It's amazing how long people like this ... (People who write articles that end with a request that carbon tax be considered. Not dividend-of-existing-C-tax-first, just C tax. Dividend is mentioned but not the necessity, both strategic and moral, of putting it ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/16/2009
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George Will is supposedly one of the reality-based
conservatives, who eschews the willful know-nothingism of some of...
his ideological co-travelers. Yet today, as he has many times before, he uses his perch on the Washington Post editorial page to lie ...
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George Will is an idiot | Gristmill: The environmental ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/13/2009
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The $789 billion economic-recovery bill looks good in
terms of green spending, according to preliminary analysis from...
the Center for American Progress. The House and Senate reached agreement on the bill on Wednesday and are expected to approve it by ...
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A green-tinged stimulus bill | Gristmill: The ...
gristmill.grist.org - 2/19/2009
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This element of Obama's impending energy policy hasn't
gotten nearly the attention it deserves. If he does...
it right, it could be the secret weapon that kills new coal plants for good -- with far greater certainty than a middling cap-and-trade program. ...
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Prospects for climate/energy action, VII | Gristmill: ...
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Fred Hiatt Won’t Correct Dishonest Climate Change Columns, Will Lecture Congress on How to Handle Climate Change
Matthew Yglesias —
An excellent point from Dave Roberts:
The Washington Post editorial board, which just this weekend elected to run a column from George Will denying climate change entirely, now presumes to lecture Barbara Boxer on how to solve it.
The classic post-war American newspaper has been largely insulated from market pressure and competition. Typically, you’d have a city and the city would have a newspaper. People could choose to subscribe to the newspaper, or they could choose not to. But they ...
The WaPo's Credibility On Climate Change
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Not exactly stellar right now.
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