Better go get some water.
"All states need to embrace bipartisan climate bill" by Robert Stavins | April 22, 2010
Robert Stavins is the Albert Pratt professor of business and government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
NEXT WEEK, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joe Lieberman will release their much-anticipated proposal for comprehensive climate and energy legislation — the best remaining shot at forging a bipartisan consensus on this issue in 2010. Their proposal has many strengths — and as an environmental economist who has worked on this issue for two decades, I hope it succeeds.
But there’s a danger that officials from some states, including Massachusetts, could undermine the effectiveness of a federal bill. While states have played an important role in pushing Congress to act, the federal initiative now has to take precedence over state regulations....
You know what that looks like, smells like, and tastes like, AmeriKa -- therefore, that is what it is: FEDERAL FASCISM and an ABROGATION on the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Related: Around AmeriKa: Smelling the Texas Roses
Around AmeriKa: California's Morning Mist
Just trample on them, will you?
Why can't they just leave us all alone?
A national cap-and-trade system — which is needed to address emissions meaningfully and cost-effectively....
Yeah, all so they can TAX YOU to PAY for their GLOBALIST ENTERPRISE. I'm sorry, but you can see it with every turn of the page, every day, readers.
But for the core of climate policy — which is carbon pricing — the simplest, cleanest, and best way to avoid unnecessary costs and unnecessary actions is for existing state systems to become part of the federal system....
Again with the on-high salute.
All so these guys these guys can LITERALLY MAKE MONEY out of THIN AIR!
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"Obama prods undecided to pass climate, energy bill
WASHINGTON - President Obama made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill yesterday, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive measure this year.
Fourteen senators from both parties, including several who remain undecided on the climate bill, met for more than an hour with Obama, four Cabinet members, and Carol Browner, White House energy adviser.
Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman, said Obama wants a comprehensive bill that includes a cap on emissions of pollution blamed for global warming.
“The president’s strong belief is that in order to transition ourselves away from our dependence on foreign oil and into a clean-energy economy, that we need a strong incentive to do that,’’ Gibbs said.
A bill sponsored by Senators John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, and Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, aims to cut emissions of pollution-causing greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The bill would abandon a broad “cap-and-trade’’ approach to reducing carbon pollution. Instead it would apply different carbon controls to different sectors of the economy.
Get ready to DROP THOSE PANTS and SPREAD THOSE CHEEKS, Americans!
Let's face it, NOTHING this government does is FOR YOU or for the GOOD!!!
Is that what ALL the LIES are for, our own good?
Kerry called the meeting “terrific’’ and said Obama “made it very, very clear that he believes it is critical to have a price on carbon,’’ a move that some Republicans and business groups oppose because it would raise the price of oil and coal.
Say HELLO to your VERY OWN FART TAX, 'murka!!
How long until a fart meter is inserted up your ass?
Of course, OBAMA can FLY ALL OVER the place POLITICKING on YOUR DIME, taxpayers, and THAT is NOT a PROBLEM!!
You SMELLING SOMETHING like me, readers?
Kerry said lawmakers were “moving very rapidly’’ to draft a bill that could be on the Senate floor this spring.
Kerry and other lawmakers are looking at cutting the nation’s output of heat-trapping greenhouse gases by targeting, in separate ways, three major sources of emissions: electric utilities, transportation, and industry.
Power plants would face an overall cap on emissions that would become more stringent over time. Motor fuel may be subject to a carbon tax whose proceeds could help electrify the US transportation sector.
Yup, you will PAY IT at the PUMP, Americans!
You know the drill, readers....
1. Pull up to pump
2. Get out of car
3. Drop pants
4. Insert gas pump into ass
You will HARDLY EVEN NOTICE the INCREASED COST!!
And industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before it is phased in.
Of course, the military is completely exempt and they are the largest polluter on the face of the planet.
You going to SHUT DOWN the WAR MACHINE, 'bomber?
And that is a good lead into this front-page piece from a few weeks back.
"US climate bill weak for N.E., critics say; Fear losing gains from states’ pact" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | April 9, 2010
Climate and energy legislation being crafted in Washington could dismantle a landmark program to curb greenhouse gases in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states and replace it with a less flexible and weaker federal plan, according to New England officials....
Look, it is going to have that tax in it so why bother with the MSM charade?
Key to state officials’ concerns is language that could force such states to scale back their policies to match the federal law.
Hey, look, the guy above opined that you must be subservient to federal law, not me.
Besides, California already looking to do it, and as California goes....
If this provision is inserted, it would be a significant concession made by Senators John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham to win industry support for a bill that faces an uphill battle for a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the highly contentious Senate. The senators’ draft legislation is expected to be released in the coming weeks....
Yeah, whatever. I've heard that filibuster thing and it doesn't really matter. As we saw with healthcare, they can get around it anytime they want. It's a political smokescreen.
Related: Which Corporations Are Backing the Carbon Tax Bill?
I'm sure they are all looking out for you and are just so concerned about the world we live in (one wonders how the geniuses let it fall in such disrepair) and there is NO MONEY to be MADE!!!
Senator Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont, said compromises will be necessary to make the bill acceptable to more conservative lawmakers.
Related: The Buying Off of Bernie Sanders
So how much did it take thi$ time, Bernie?
Few details have leaked out about the bipartisan energy and climate bill, although its goals are expected to be similar to a House-passed version....
Translation: the MSM and government are afraid to tell you what is in the bill (just like health care) because they know the infuriated American public has had quite enough.
And Repugs can't block it, not with Graham on board. That's the 60th vote (and a few stragglers on the R side will join him, watch. It never hurts to spout benevolent intentions while sucking up to the masters.
and place a price on carbon dioxide pollution that would be paid by industry and power plants and passed on to consumers.
See? One little fart poot and.... sniff, sniff, sniff, stink!
There is growing discussion over whether the bill should allow consumers a rebate from the proceeds to make up for higher electricity costs.
You are getting SCREWED SIX DAYS from Sunday, Americans!
It is SO, SO SAD!!!!
Nervousness among environmentalists about the bill’s language ramped up late last month, when trade publications reported....
--more--"Of course, we met our targets here -- or so claims the agenda-pushing, self-serving state.
"Mass. to meet gas reduction target; Report finds payoff in state’s investments" by Beth Daley, Globe Staff | February 6, 2010
As national legislation to reduce global warming emissions has stalled in Congress, Massachusetts is on target to reduce its own emissions more than 18 percent below 1990 levels in the next decade, according to a draft technical report released by the state yesterday.
How can they have any clue as to what... oh, never mind.
The finding, environmentalists said, bucks the idea that greenhouse gas reductions are too financially burdensome to do....
Hey, it will be attached to the pump, America.
You are in there so often you won't even feel it after a while.
“This analysis shows that, under Governor Patrick, Massachusetts is making great strides in reducing greenhouse gas emissions,’’ said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles. “It also shows measures that save money and create clean energy jobs, like energy efficiency and renewables, have a big environmental payoff.’’
That then move to China -- or Michigan.
Under the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act, the Commonwealth is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 10 to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. By the end of this year, Bowles will set legally binding target within that range, and yesterday’s report served as an indicator he may set a deeply ambitious one. The report, produced for the state by Eastern Research Group, Inc. of Lexington, projected that emissions would be relatively flat between 1990 and 2020 without changes in government policies, and could be lower with the stalled economy....
There are some caveats:
Oh, of course; it is the newspaper I am reading.
Funny how these things always fall towards the back end of the agenda-pushing piece at all.
Still....
If I color code them all I would be taking up way too much time; we need to move on today, thank you.
global warming....
Couldn't help my, pfft, self, sorry.
At the same time, they said, state officials are attracting more green jobs....
You know, the agenda-pushing lying is just... sigh.
Still....
Oh, for crying out loud! I mean, these wre considered BAD WORDS for a REPORT when I WENT TO SCHOOL!
And "yet" HERE THEY ARE AGAIN, SPRINKLED ALL OVER MY NEWSPAPER!
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"Earth Day recalls past challenges, future woes; Planetary threats now harder to see" by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | April 22, 2010
WASHINGTON — Pollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern California beaches. And thick smog choked many cities’ skies.
Not anymore.
Forty years after that first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, smog levels nationwide have dropped by about a quarter, and lead levels in the air are down more than 90 percent. Formerly fetid lakes and burning rivers are now open to swimmers.
The challenges to the planet today are largely invisible — and therefore tougher to tackle....
Issues such as climate change are less obvious to the naked eye....
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Also see:
- Earth Day: Oily Obama
- Earth Day: Finding God on the Banks of the Charles River
- Earth Day: Time For Play
- Earth Day: Taking a Chainsaw to the Environmental Movement
- Earth Day: Biomass Mess in Massachusetts
- Earth Day: King of the Forest in Massachusetts
- Earth Day: Let the $un $hine In
- Earth Day: Massachusetts Says Burn Baby Burn
- Earth Day: Hybrid Hypocrisy
- Earth Day: Getting the Lead Out
- Earth Day: Cape Cuts Wind
- Earth Day: Food For Fuel
- Earth Day: Trash Pick-Up in Massachusetts
Stinks in here.
