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Others would argue there's value in getting giant corporations on board with carbon caps, even if it means offering them a watered-down proposal. But even that may be onerous: As difficult as it was convincing the public that climate change was a clear and present danger - and a...
Worse, many experts consider the offset system deeply flawed. A 2008 Stanford University study found that between one-third and two-thirds of carbon offsets under the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism - which oversees offset projects under the Kyoto Protocol - do not represent actual emission cuts. In addition, the USCAP...
Where to hold the detainees is a more difficult question. A proposal to move some of them to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas met with fierce bipartisan opposition from the state's Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius, and its Republican Senators, Sam Brownback and Lynn Jenkins. Other states may prove equally resistant...
As any student of French history knows, it doesn't require a presidential order to generate argument about a proposal - especially one that detractors suspect is fueled by political motives. Sarkozy, political opponents allege, is using the museum push as another sop to voters on the hard right, many of...
As the leaders of Israel and Hamas examined the fine points of an Egyptian cease-fire proposal, Israeli forces pushed hard into central Gaza Thursday, striking more than 70 "enemy targets," officials said. But a few Israeli artillery shells went amiss, crashing into the United Nations compound and a hospital...