blnz.com - 1/7/2009
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Whenever a crisis develops, Congress always over-reacts. When the Enron bankruptcy became news in 2001, Congress gave us Sarbanes-Oxley, the most expensive securities legislation in history. The recent subprime lending scandal has encouraged Congress to propose a plethora of new costly ...
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environmentalleader.com - 1/6/2009
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environmentalleader.com —
China may soon have the world’s biggest photovoltaic
project, Raymond James analyst Wayne Andrews told AP (via...
Forbes). China Technology Development Group Corp. and Qinghai New Energy Group are planning to build a 30-megawatt on-grid solar ...
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Analyst: China May Soon Have World’s Biggest Solar Farm
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Global Warming Deniers and the English Language
Climate Progress —
... and other devices that nobody can understand it, which may be the point. If there is any surprise here, it’s that our national leaders haven’t invented a new term for “tax.” Carbon Premium, Sustainability Surcharge, Posterity Tariff and Mitigation Duty all come to mind. Fifth, don’t proponents of responsible climate action realized that opponents will accuse them of raising taxes no matter what they do? When the Lieberman-Warner carbon trading bill advanced in the Senate last year, opponents in the conservative chattering class called it the “largest tax increase in history” ...
Global warming deniers and the English language
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Fifth, don't proponents of responsible climate action realize that opponents will accuse them of raising taxes no matter what they do? When the Lieberman-Warner carbon trading bill advanced in the Senate last year, opponents in the conservative chattering class called it the "largest tax increase in history" even though it contained no new tax. ...
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