nytimes.com - 6/29/2009
—
Washington WHILE President Obama’s cap-and-trade proposal to reduce greenhouse gases has been the big topic of recent environmental debate, the White House has also been pushing a futuristic federal project to build a power plant that burns coal without any greenhouse gases. Sounds great, right? ...
nytimes.com - 6/25/2009
—
nytimes.com —
Washington THIS summer is turning into a seminar
on race and the law. On Monday, the Supreme...
Court handed down a decision on the Voting Rights Act. It will soon rule on a high-profile case involving claims of “reverse discrimination.” The two biggest ...
(more)
Op-Ed Contributor - When Judicial Activism Suits the Right
nytimes.com - 6/30/2009
—
nytimes.com —
Washington THE law of employment discrimination today is
not what it was before 10 a.m. Monday, when...
the Supreme Court ruled against the City of New Haven for scrapping a fire department promotional exam that appeared to favor white test-takers. ...
(more)
Op-Ed Contributor - The Court Changes the Game
nytimes.com - 6/24/2009
—
nytimes.com —
NEW YORK STATE government is not working. This
has been true for some time. But the paralysis...
and confusion that has overtaken the capital demonstrates the need to confront this dysfunction directly and take decisive steps to solve it once and for ...
(more)
Op-Ed Contributor - Putting New York Back Together
Comments
Blog Reactions
NY Times Op-Ed Page of Climate Change & Dirty Coal
Hit & Run —
... cleaner than what we are using. Yet coal use is a future certainty. Half of our power comes from coal, versus about 2 percent from solar and wind: in the next few decades, green power simply cannot grow quickly enough to eliminate the need for coal. We have two choices: do nothing and wait for FutureGen while coal-caused carbon emissions continue unabated; or start building improved coal-fired plants that reduce the problem. Which seems more forward-thinking? The Easterbrook piece is well worth reading. I wonder if Krugman judges ...
Betting Blind on ACES:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... whether the bill's sponsors really understand offsets, and Gregg Easterbrook observes how cleaner coal facilities are being blocked while we wait for "FutureGen" coal facilities that may never appear. On a sunnier front, the NYT ...
Related Content
Op-Ed Contributor - How to Clean a Dirty Bank
nytimes.com 4/6/2009 — Chicago COMMERCIAL banks in the United States are not subject to the bankruptcy statute when they become insolvent they are simply acquired by the government. This is what banks sign on for in return for a charter, deposit insurance and direct ...
Op-Ed Contributor - What You Might Not Know About the Recovery
nytimes.com 7/26/2009 — Washington SIX months ago, when President Obama and I took office, we were confronted with an economic crisis unparalleled in our lifetime. The nation was hemorrhaging more than 700,000 jobs a month, the housing market was in free fall, and the fate ...
Clean Coal and Cap and Trade
angrybear.blogspot.com 8/31/2009 — Robert Waldmann Joe Strawman argues that the solution to global warming is clean coal technology and in particular sequestering C02 from exhaust from coal fired power plants. Therefore cap and trade is a bad policy, because technology will solve anything soon. In fact, if "clean coal" is not a ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Too Poor to Make the News
nytimes.com 6/14/2009 — THE human side of the recession, in the new media genre that’s been called “recession porn,” is the story of an incremental descent from excess to frugality, from ease to austerity. The super-rich give up their personal jets; the upper middle class ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Her Justice Is Blind
nytimes.com 6/16/2009 — Washington LONG past the Civil War, and a generation after the formative civil rights struggle, many of us remain incapable of having a conversation about ethnicity that does not devolve into charges of racism. One recent example of this is the public ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Bailout Justice
nytimes.com 5/5/2009 — Washington I CAN imagine the Treasury secretary’s face turning pale as he is told by the attorney general that one of the financial institutions on government life support has been indicted by a grand jury. Worse, I can imagine the attorney general ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Keep Off the Astroturf
nytimes.com 8/19/2009 — WITH the “public option” part of President Obama’s health care reform plan looking dead in the water, many of its supporters are taking issue with the legitimacy of its opposition. “We call it ‘Astroturf,’ ” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said of ...
Op-Ed Contributor - Science Is in the Details
nytimes.com 7/28/2009 — PRESIDENT OBAMA has nominated Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. It would seem a brilliant choice. Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
