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  Only 32 pages, no scope for pork, no giant corporations standing to make a killing off the bill - these flaws probably doom the bill.On New Cantwell climate bill is simpler and more equitable posted 1 month ago 5 Responses

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  Yes, I am OK with paying a higher price on everything that requires dirty energy to produce paying a LOWER price on everything produced with renewable energy - by taxing dirty energy sources and subsidizing renewable energy sources, instead of the other way around, as we are doing now. Yes, right now we are subsidizing oil from the middle east and consumer products shipped all the way from China, by hiding the true costs. And we have been doing everything to make renewable energy and mass transportation appear uncompetitive - and even buying up and burying the patents when that doesn't work. Cap & trade is all about putting a value to the environmental costs associated with our lifestyle choices.On What the EPA announcement did (and did not) say posted 1 month ago 17 Responses

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  "If insurance companies are required to accept everyone,.. then the insurance industry will become a powerful ally in fight for better food and against the agribusiness lobby." Oh, yeah? Are you holding your breath. I'm certainly not! What's this guy smoking?

  On Pollan says health-care reform will fail unless we change the way we eat posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago 11 Responses

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  I agree that, except in exceptional circumstances, environmental groups should not be rushing to make endorsements - and certainly not for supposedly-apolitical offices (which only helps to further politicize these offices) . I suppose many of them do so in order to be seen as power brokers and to chalk up victories with their member base. I doubt that these endorsements are terribly effective (as Hydropsyche's comments seem to bear out) or carry as much weight as the endorsements of the labor unions. With the League of Conservation Voters' decision to use the votes on the flawed ACES Act as a litmus test for future endorsements, they have lost all credibility in my eyes.

  On Sotomayor endorsement is an embarrassment posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago 11 Responses

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  You are barking up the wrong tree. Go elect committed environmentalists to Congress, not necessarily to the courts. We need judges who know the law thoroughly, will apply the law fairly and interpret it sensibly. Period. We do not need nor want partisans on the Supreme Court either way, not those who are in the pockets of the oil or coal industry or the fundamentalist right wing, nor those who have an overt environmentalist agenda. Empathy yes, partisanship no.

  On Sotomayor endorsement is an embarrassment posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago 11 Responses