[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o1R16juyQ4[/youtube] whitehouse — April 22, 2010 — Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, answers your questions about the clean energy economy. WhiteHouse.gov/earthday
Filed in Green Living, News Blurbs
|
Also tagged Air Quality, Automotive Sector, Batteries, Carbon Cap, CEQ, China, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Congress, Copenhagen, DOE, DOT, Earth Day 2010, Ecology, Economy, Ecosystems, Education, Employment, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Star, Environment, EPA, Everglades, Fuel Economy Standards, Funding, Green Energy, Green Tech, Greenhouse Gases, Homeowners, HomeStar, India, Investments, Jobs, National Security, Nuclear Power, Pentagon, Rapid Mass Transit, Rebates, Recovery Act, Regulations, Renewable Energy, Research and Development, Retrofitting, Smart Grid, Solar Power, Tax Credits, Technology, Transportation, Universities, Water, Wind Power
|
Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production companies and information technology firms from around the world. “It would free the press from fear,” says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament spearheading the proposal, which is known as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [...]
Filed in Journalism, News Blurbs, Technology
|
Also tagged Althingi, Anonymity, Courts, Daniel Schmitt, FOIA, Freedom of Expression, Gag Orders, Iceland, Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, IMMI, Journalism, Julian Assange, Libel Laws, UK, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks
|
A baby step was taken last night in Health Insurance Reform. That’s right, I said “a baby step” because despite all the whining by conservatives… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM[/youtube] …very little has actually changed. Most provisions of the reform bills don’t even kick in for four years, including mandatory health insurance, which conservatives liken to “big government” and [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
State Senate Michelle McManus (R-Lake Leelanau), a candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, has introduced legislation that would make it harder for people to get divorced. McManus is the sole sponsor of SB 1127 which would eliminate ‘no fault divorce’ for couples with children or where one member does not consent to the divorce. Since 1972 Michigan’s [...]
On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)introduced a bill aimed at getting 10 million new solar rooftop systems and 200,000 new solar hot water heating systems installed in the U.S. in the next 10 years. Cleverly titled the “10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act” (.pdf), it would provide rebates [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
In a decision that might actually have more dire implications than “Dred Scott v Sandford” the Supreme Court of the United States in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission declared that because of the alchemy of its 19th Century predecessors in deciding that corporations had all the rights of people, any restrictions on how these corporate-beings [...]
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Watching American politics through British eyes, you must be utterly mystified as to why Barack Obama hasn’t gotten this healthcare bill passed yet. Many Americans are too. The instinctive reflex is to blame Obama. He must be doing something wrong. Maybe he is doing a thing or two wrong. But the main thing is that [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Bill proposes forcing foreign banks operating in the US to disclose American customers’ names and annual account balances or face a 30 per cent tax on the bank’s income from US assets. All Americans with more than $50,000 in foreign assets would have to declare their holdings in their tax return. Failure to do [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Four Democratic U.S. senators will introduce a bill to repeal a provision protecting telecommunications carriers from lawsuits targeting their assistance to a controversial U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program. [...] The new legislation, called the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, would allow lawsuits against telecom providers such as AT&T to resume. via Senators want to end [...]
Listening To
