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Vegas on steroids: meet Dubai
For me, a post about Dubai (the amazing pace of construction shown above) must begin with some thoughts about Las Vegas and about the king of rock'n'roll, who performed in that city often and whose impersonators there remain legion. ...
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Doctors Demand Climate Change Action to Avert "Global Health Catastrophe"
As Congress continues to grapple with health care reform this week, heads of state meet at a UN summit to face the challenge of climate change in preparation for a December conference in Copenhagen. Given the dire health consequences of...
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More DOE Renewable Energy Grants
The second round of 30% cash grants for renewable projects was awarded today by DOE and Treasury. I gave some context for these grants, as well as discussing potential concerns in a post a few weeks back covering the first...
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Getting Our Money's Worth...
The Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) coalition, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will hold a press conference at noon today to call for quick renewal of our federal transportation program. As part of this, ATM supports a gas tax...
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Lead climate treaty scientist calls on Canada to put tar sands development on hold
Today the Montreal Gazette reported that the lead climate scientist and recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said that until technologies are more advanced to address the carbon emissions...
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