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...project should reduce emissions below the level that would have occurred without that project, a condition known as "additionality." But that's not always the case. Thanks to hazy interpretations of that proviso, "at least half" of current projects wouldn't meet a uniformly strict assessment, says Michael Schlup, director of the Gold Standard Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, an organization dedicated to eradicating just such inconsistencies. His group unveiled what's designed to be a rigorous, industry-wide protocol in May, and says that around 20 projects are currently applying the code. A rival benchmark Voluntary Carbon Standard is expected...
POTOSI, MISSOURI -- With 20 hours remaining until he was to be executed, Lloyd Schlup, dozing in his death-watch cell in Potosi State Correctional Center, received a call on the phone that 12 hours later would bring his reprieve by the Governor. A voice mentioned Schlup's family, staying nearby, and said, "The state will take care of you tomorrow. We'll be glad to put them out of their misery." In terror, Schlup began to vomit. Who were the resourceful telephone ghouls? Almost surely prison employees...
...starting with free lawyers. A minimum of 22 judges have reviewed this case, which has taken years of our time and hundreds of thousands of tax dollars. We feel that Lloyd had a trial and has been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Frank Jung, Nixon's representative at Schlup's last attempt at a new hearing, said, "This is not newly discovered evidence. This is newly developed evidence...
...scenario seems ominously similar with Schlup. "I've never really had any hope in my life until I met Sean O'Brien," says Schlup. "The only thing I've been able to do about my life before this was drugs. I just figured I was going to die in here." He adds, haltingly, "I don't want to die." He closes his eyes and presses the back of a tatooed fist against his quivering mouth to compose himself. "I just hope that things will turn out all right...
...Lloyd Schlup awaits death despite new evidence he is innocent...