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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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Andrew Sullivan: "Here's a really helpful and deeply chilling open-source recreation of the chronology that led the United States both to legalize and authorize torture and to destroy the most glaring evidence - the CIA torture tapes. Imagine if the same people had been successful and destroyed the Abu Ghraib photographs. Bush would still be denying that any abuses had taken place at all."
"2008 pres"
7:19:36 PM 
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Chris Nolan (via Spot On): "There's a lot being made lately about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's inability to attract 'professional' women to her cause. There's also a lot been made about Sen. Barack Obama's ability to talk to feminists. And then there's the whole idea of 'change' which gets a lot closer to women's problems voting for Clinton than anyone wants to admit."
"2008 pres"
7:05:03 PM
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From The Rocky Mountain News, "A move to slow oil shale development in northwestern Colorado appeared successful as the U.S. House was expected to vote on a spending bill that removed a 2008 deadline for the federal government to issue commercial leasing rules. U.S. Sen Ken Salazar and Reps. John Salazar and Mark Udall, all Colorado Democrats, placed language in the bill that prohibits the Bureau of Land Management from issuing any final regulations for oil shale leasing or offering any leases during fiscal year 2008. Under current law, BLM must issue leasing rules and move to a commercial leasing program before the end of 2008."
"2008 pres"
7:04:45 AM
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Here's an article about a new report about the impact of climate change on urban water supplies from The Environmental News Network. From the article:
Warming of the earth's atmosphere will continue to put mounting pressure on America's drinking water sources, leading to diminishing supplies in some regions and flooding in others, according to an analysis released today by the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA), a nonprofit organization of the largest publicly owned drinking water systems in the United States. AMWA's report, Implications of Climate Change for Urban Water Utilities, forecasts the likely impacts of climate change on water supplies in different regions of the U.S., such as an accelerated hydrologic cycle of evaporation and precipitation, water contamination, rising sea levels and pressure on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The report is available for viewing and download at AMWA's new climate change webpage, www.amwa.net/cs/climatechange...
This report shows that climate change may pose great challenges to delivering limited amounts of clean and safe water to a rapidly growing population," added VanDe Hei. Among the actions that the report suggests water systems take to prepare for the impacts of climate change are vulnerability assessments to identify short-term adaptation needs; cooperative planning and modeling efforts among utilities to devise strategies addressing likely regional water resource issues; and efforts by utilities to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions. "The ramifications identified in the report point to at least two key needs," said VanDe Hei. "Scientific research is needed to better understand the impacts of climate change on existing fresh water resources and to help develop and assess the affordability of alternative water sources -- such as reuse, recycling, conservation and desalination...In addition, an increased federal investment in water infrastructure is needed to help offset the costs of new supply development and capital projects to ensure that all Americans continue to have access to safe and affordable drinking water," she said.
"2008 pres"
6:57:52 AM
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