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• Democrats: "ClimateGate" Leak A Non-Scandal

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  "....But Democrats put a brave face on it on Wednesday, with Massachusetts Rep. Ed Markey saying that the leaked files and allegations of scientific misconduct should not stand in the way of the U.S. Congress swiftly enacting cap and trade legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions." Original Article: Forum: ...
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• What, No ‘Raise Your Right Hand’ Photo-Op?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  I am told that, at this morning’s hearing of the House Select Committee on Global Warming, the Ranking Republican Jim Sensenbrenner (WI) requested that the two administration science witnesses — White House science advisor John Holdren, most recently seen in the ClimateGate emails defending the erasing from ...
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• Select Committee Hearing on The State of Climate Science

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 595
  The hearing will be webcast at this link at 10am . Expect SwiftHack conspiracy theories from the Republicans on the committee. With the international climate change talks in Copenhagen fast approaching, there is real urgency to reach diplomatic consensus on a planetary solution. In a hearing this Wednesday, the ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• Howard Fineman Defends Newsweek/API Policy Briefing

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 595
  About a month ago, a strange email hit the inboxes of many congressional staffers. It was an invitation to an ‘Executive Forum’ on climate and energy policy hosted by the American Petroleum Institute. What was strange about this invitation was the sender of the email and the co-host of the policy forum: ...
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• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Kennedy’s Passing, Markey’s Backing Could Affect Wind Farm

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 489
  By Amy Harder TonyfromOz prefaces ….. This post deals with the Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound. I have used this project in numerous earlier posts, detailing the futility of a reliance on this form of power to actually take the place of the conventional power plants currently supply a constant supply of ...
  2 weeks ago

• More on Secy. Chu’s convoluted climate economics

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 616
  In recent testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, energy secretary Steven Chu makes a convoluted case for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, a.k.a. the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. Chu argues roughly as follows. Global investment in wind turbines and solar panels ...
  4 weeks ago

• Net Neutrality Red Herrings, and How to Combat Them

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 803
  Rep. Ed Markey had a conference call with bloggers last Friday to talk about his legislation which would "establish overarching national broadband policy and ensures an open and consumer oriented Internet," or codify net neutrality. In addition : Markey stressed the importance of fighting "misinformation," ...
  4 weeks ago

• F1 news briefs: Wednesday

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 454
  Search begins for F1’s 2011 tyre supplier Michelin and Goodyear, the most recent tyre brands in formula one, have played down suggestions they might take over from Bridgestone as F1’s exclusive supplier in 2011 and beyond. A spokeswoman for Michelin’s North American headquarters said the French company is ...
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• Take Action for Net Neutrality

  
  BDPA Foundation — Authority: 134
  I was pleased to receive invitation to join a conference call today with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) regarding his Internet Freedom Preservation Act ( H.R. 3458 ) bill. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act would protect Network Neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguard the future of the open Internet, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ed Markey (D-MA) Discusses Net Neutrality with Black Bloggers

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 535
  I was pleased to receive invitation to join a conference call today with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) regarding his Internet Freedom Preservation Act ( H.R. 3458 ) bill. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act would protect Network Neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguard the future of the open Internet, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Markey To Coal Lobby: You Should Have Told Lawmakers About Forged Letters

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 765
  Rep. Ed Markey is putting blame for the forged letters episode where it ultimately belongs: on the coal lobby. "Youre responsbility was to ensure that the members of Congress knew that this information was fraudulent," Markey tells ACCCE chief Steve Miller. Miller had just said he assumed that Bonner himself ...
  5 weeks ago

• Did ACCCE Chief Lie To Congress?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 765
  Steve Miller of ACCCE just told the Markey committee that his firm never opposed the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation. But look at this Greenwire story, via the New York Times , from last month ... and especially this "clarification." Clarification: This story was changed to state that ACCCE opposed ...
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• AstroTurfing and Global Warming: The Testimony You’re Not Supposed to Hear

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  The Democratic majority objected to my appearing at a House hearing this morning addressing AstroTurfing in the global warming advocacy industry. The majority were not amused by the prospect of a discordant note being struck. As such, the Republicans will have no witnesses. They have agreed to this after being ...
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• Bonner: We Should Have Notified Lawmakers Right Away

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 765
  Perhaps Bonners biggest problem here is that he learned about the forged letters before the vote on global warming legislation, but didnt notify the affected lawmakers until after. Heres what Bonner said in his testimony on that point: While our immediate focus upon learning of this fraud was to reach out and ...
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• Coal Lobby Paid $7 Million To PR Firm That Hired Bonner

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 765
  A coal industry group paid over $7 million last fiscal year to the company that hired Bonner & Associates, the astroturf lobbying firm behind those forged letters to Congress . Thats according to internal documents obtained by congressional investigators and examined by TPMmuckraker. Jack Bonner, the founder ...
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• Astroturf King Jack Bonners Long History of Deceitful "Grassroots" Lobbying

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 638
  JackBonnerQualityControl.jpg As youll recall, Bonner & Associates – the D.C. Astroturf shop busted for mailing at least a dozen forged letters to Congress this summer prior to the House vote on climate and energy legislation – has found itself under the media spotlight lately, struggling ...
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• Climate News Network

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  This is pretty pathetic. CNN commissions a poll to assist with a week’s worth of Senate hearings and one in the House all designed to breathe life into the Senate’s counter to Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy rationing legislation. The express point of that scheme is to raise energy prices, which outcome our ...
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