Speech Contrasts With Bush, Conservatives? Efforts To Worsen Warming SOURCE: AP/Gerald Herbert Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, proposing an ambitious new goal for generating 100 percent of electricity from renewable sources in 10 years. By Daniel J. Weiss | July 18, 2008 Former Vice President and Nobel Peace [...]
Archive for July 19th, 2008
19 Jul
Al Gore: A sound pick for the environment
By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist / July 19, 2008 IT IS unlikely that a Nobel laureate, Oscar winner and former vice president of the United States would return to the nuts and bolts of the federal bureaucracy, but it is obvious who Barack Obama or John McCain should make either energy secretary or administrator [...]
19 Jul
Warming Is Major Threat To Humans, EPA Warns
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 18, 2008; Page A01 Climate change will pose “substantial” threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday — issuing its warnings about heat waves, hurricanes and pathogens just days after the agency declined to regulate the [...]
19 Jul
Going jaw to jaw with our enemies
By Ted Sorensen July 18, 2008 SENATOR JOHN McCain has apparently decided to focus not on the sagging economy under the disastrous Bush economic and fiscal policies, which McCain would continue, but on Senator Barack Obama’s willingness to communicate with hostile foreign leaders, such as those in Iran, North Korea, and Syria. In a recent [...]
