Three of the five biggest oil companies—Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil—have recently expressed support for putting a price on carbon emissions. Shell and BP are signatories to the “Carbon Price Communique,” a statement released by more than 100 companies.
CNN reports, "the resolution elevates the Palestinian authority from "nonmember observer entity" to "nonmember observer state," the same as the Vatican. The vote was 138 delegates in favor, 9 against and 41 abstentions, including Germany." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said the United Nations had made an "unfortunate...
Former Sen. Warren Rudman, a feisty centrist Republican from New Hampshire, died on Monday. Rudman was of a breed that’s rare in Washington today: the New England Republicans, as tight on fiscal discipline as they were generous in recognizing individual liberties. As National Journal’s John Aloysius Farrell writes, "Rudman performed...
Lawmakers ambled back into town on Tuesday for the first time since September. Lots on their plate during the lame-duck session, most important will be avoiding the so-called “FISCAL CLIFF” that has financial markets, economists and policymakers and the rest of us rattled because of its potential to send the...
Expiration of the Bush-era Tax cuts + Sequestration … An accident of timing … a result of a one-two punch … combines major across the board spending cuts to the Pentagon/domestics programs with tax increases.
If the U.S. government ends up careening off the "fiscal cliff," Republicans in Congress stand to shoulder most of the blame, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. Breakdown: 53% said Republicans in Congress would be more to blame, 29% said Obama while 10% said both. Those kinds...
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