Wednesday, March 05, 2008

03/05/2008 TO Enviro-news

Stephen Leahy | Climate Change: The Ostrich Brigades
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030508EA.shtml
"Colder than usual January temperatures in the United States have brought the climate change deniers out of hibernation, flooding web sites and opinion and letters pages about the 'great global warming hoax'. They even organized their own conference on denial in New York City this week," says Stephen Leahy of the Inter Press News. "These temperatures prove nothing. It is just weather. However, climate is completely different than the daily variations in temperature in any one place."

James K. Boyce | Big Oil Should Pay Its Share of Taxes
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030508EB.shtml
"On February 28, the Gazette ran an AP story headlined 'House OKs $18 Billion in new taxes on big oil companies.' In paragraph 10, the careful reader learned that a bill passed the previous day by the US House of Representatives seeks to 'roll back two lucrative tax breaks for the five largest US oil companies.' Excuse me? Since when is rolling back tax breaks the same thing as 'new taxes'?" writes James K. Boyce of The Daily Hampshire Gazette.

Loans Program for Rural Coal Plants Shelved
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030508EC.shtml
The Associated Press writes: "The federal government is suspending a major loan program for coal-fired power plants in rural communities, saying the uncertainties of climate change and rising construction costs make the loans too risky."

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