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Energy control

…not only the new fuel standards, which is a huge step forward, but also generous incentives for energy efficiency, for cleaner alternative fuels and for the new technologies that will…

Sewerage in the Shenendoah and Chesapeake Bay

…has now abandoned those mandates, said Shenandoah Riverkeeper and Potomac Riverkeeper, the nonprofit groups that first filed suit last year against the plant’s owners. Since the owner, S.I.L. Clean Water…

Crunch time ahead?

…utterly unfashionable, but it is well documented by economic history. Financial regulation was pro-efficiency. America’s squeaky clean, transparent, reliable financial markets were the envy of the world. They undergirded the…

More on water resources and GATS

…year. Rainstorms easily overwhelm sewage systems, and broken or clogged pipes contribute to the 23,000-75,000 raw sewage overflows every year. Federal clean water funding has plummeted under the Bush administration,…

…U.S. “progress” in the war. When Westmoreland sued CBS for libel, several of his subordinates came clean, and Westmoreland quickly dropped the suit. The analogy with Westmoreland—justifying a White House…

Has Jacob Marley been visiting?

clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But it is this bit, almost at the end of the excerpt that made me chuckle: We didn’t elect…

Fortune Magazine on Corporate Pension Plans

…with his Social Security private accounts – but those accounts were relatively puny, the president was unwilling to come clean about the true costs of his plan, and Congress in…

President Bush Hearts Jimmy Carter

…the politics out. Wasn’t his first action step to blame local officials for the failures of FEMA? Now, you will have to excuse me as I go clean the eggs…

Luskin-Moore: Katrina Was Not That Bad

…fund to house and feed the displaced and to clean-up the environmental damage is something Mr. Moore does not address. Also see this comment from Max Sawicky. Moore also seems…

PlameGate & Rove: the Right Reacts – Part II

…come clean about his affair. Bottom line: the NRO is obsessed about an affair but is not concerned over the outing of a CIA operative for partisan and vindictive purposes….