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Monday, May 12, 2008
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Colorado Pols: "Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr announced today he's running for president as a Libertarian."
"2008 pres"
6:19:24 PM 
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From The Denver Business Journal: " A report issued Monday by the federal Department of Energy --- saying that wind power could meet 20 percent of the nation's needs by 2030 --- could boost Colorado's fledgling wind industry. 'We're really been positioning ourselves as the center for the new energy economy,' said Craig Cox, executive director of Interwest Energy Alliance, a renewable energy trade association based in Conifer."
"2008 pres"
6:17:34 PM
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If you're following the public comment period for the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Draft
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for oil shale development click here for the public comments and here for the written comments.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here and here.
"2008 pres"
6:07:30 PM
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Now here's something to shake up the Republican base. Republicans for Environmental Protection sent out email linking to John McCain's speech in Oregon today on global warming. Here's the link to the speech. A couple of excerpts:
In the coming weeks, I intend to address many of the great challenges that America's energy policies must meet. When we debate energy bills in Washington, it should be more than a competition among industries for special favors, subsidies, and tax breaks. In the Congress, we need to send the special interests on their way - without their favors and subsidies. We need to draw on the best ideas of both parties, and on all the resources a free market can provide. We need to keep our eyes on big goals in energy policy, the serious dangers, and the common interests of the American people.
Today I'd like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all. Whether we call it "climate change" or "global warming," in the end we're all left with the same set of facts. The facts of global warming demand our urgent attention, especially in Washington. Good stewardship, prudence, and simple common sense demand that we to act meet the challenge, and act quickly.
Some of the most compelling evidence of global warming comes to us from NASA. No longer do we need to rely on guesswork and computer modeling, because satellite images reveal a dramatic disappearance of glaciers, Antarctic ice shelves and polar ice sheets. And I've seen some of this evidence up close. A few years ago I traveled to the area of Svalbard, Norway, a group of islands in the Arctic Ocean. I was shown the southernmost point where a glacier had reached twenty years earlier. From there, we had to venture northward up the fjord to see where that same glacier ends today - because all the rest has melted. On a trip to Alaska, I heard about a national park visitor's center that was built to offer a picture-perfect view of a large glacier. Problem is, the glacier is gone. A work of nature that took ages to form had melted away in a matter of decades...
We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of global warming, or the precise timeline of global warming, we need to deal with the central facts of rising temperatures, rising waters, and all the endless troubles that global warming will bring. We stand warned by serious and credible scientists across the world that time is short and the dangers are great. The most relevant question now is whether our own government is equal to the challenge.
Memo to Barack and Hillary. McCain just stole your natural position on this issue. Have you figured out who white people are going to vote for? Sigh.
"2008 pres"
6:06:19 PM
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TalkLeft: "The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today on the presidential candidates and their positions on federal raids of marijuana dispensaries. It gets it somewhat right, but is a little misleading in my view. With the Oregon vote coming up, it paints Barack Obama as the only true friend of the medical marijuana user. (None are a friend to the recreational user, although Obama once said he was.)"
"2008 pres"
6:03:24 PM
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Political Wire: "A new Research 2000 poll in West Virginia finds Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama, 58% to 31%, in tomorrow's Democratic primary. However, in general election match ups both Democrats get crushed by Sen. John McCain. McCain leads Clinton, 53% to 41%, and tops Obama, 58% to 33%,"
Political Wire: "Just a day before the West Virginia primary, a new Suffolk University poll finds Sen. Hillary Clinton leading Sen. Barack Obama among Democratic voters by a wide margin, 60% to 24%."
"2008 pres"
6:01:17 PM
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Last update: 3/15/09; 2:25:01 PM.
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