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...small part to prodding by California and other states with progressive governors, attitudes have changed in Washington. But Congress continues to dither over cap and trade, and California is moving ahead. On Sept. 15, Schwarzenegger signed an executive order requiring that the state get 33% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 - well above the 15% national standard that current climate bills circulating in Congress would require. California is not alone: more than half the states in the U.S. have similar renewable energy standards, and states in the West and the Northeast have begun to form regional carbon...
...governors who have gathered in Los Angeles are pushing from the bottom up, demonstrating that there is political will to deal with climate change. Ultimately, of course, it will be the national governments in Washington, London and Beijing, among other places, that will take part in the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen and shape how the world takes on global warming. But the vast majority of that response - whether it means shoring up cities for sea level rise or tightening green building codes - will need to be carried out at the state and city level, the governors...
Firing unauthorized workers is therefore premature and not part of a holistic approach to comprehensive immigration reform, but rather an exclusionary targeting of a demographic and a hollow indictment of employing unauthorized workers. If the Obama administration sincerely wants to solve the immigration issue once and for all, it must dispense with bad policy, not decent people...
...part of their research, they collected statistics from HUDS and the Harvard Office for Sustainability. They also conducted focus groups and surveys which found that while most students use Fly-By at least once a week, few actually “fly by,” opting instead to sit in Loker Commons...
...This week’s controversial missile tests didn’t even help the fundamentalist dictatorship assert itself on the international stage—the nation capitulated to Western demands for inspections a few days later. The recent complaisance has us wondering: Is all this uranium enrichment just part of Iran’s dark-horse bid to beat out Chicago for the 2016 Olympic Games...