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Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | yesterday
DOWNLOADS: (110) PLAYS: (458) Rep. Edward Markey on the Republican's "do nothing substitute" health care bill. Well said Congressman. Markey: You know the G.O.P. used to stand for Grand Old Party. Now it stands for grandstand, oppose and pretend. They grandstand with phony claims about non-existent death panels. They oppose any real reform and with this substitute they pretend to offer a...
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Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | yesterday
The long-debated Cape Wind project is a significant measure of US commitment to alternative energy, Representative Edward Markey said today, urging a federal decision before the global warming conference in Denmark early next month. Markey wrote a letter today to...
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eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 6: The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 230 to 193 the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868) [See WIMS 10/23/09]. According to a release from the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill strengthens security at America's chemical plants and drinking water and wastewater facilities by establishing risk-based and reasonable security standards for these critical assets. H.R....
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Ohio 15th District (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It appears that the Republican Party's long awaited health care bill has arrived. Unfortunately, it is positively worthless. Here is an article about the GOP bill from NY Daily News: ....the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found an odd feature in the 230-page bill: Coverage would be more expensive for older people and folks who are sick. And it would not bar insurers from excluding preexisting...
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TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Let’s recap here: way back in April, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made this ironic joke where they said it can’t regulate nuclear materials . More specifically, the commission said it cannot stop foreign nuclear waste from being imported into the United States for disposal. This was in response to a company called EnergySolutions wanting to import waste from Italy and dispose of it...
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Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use test data from companies and other existing data in judging whether chemicals found in pesticides and plastics could disrupt the human endocrine system, which releases hormones.[source] I suspect that the OMB is actually suggesting [...]
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Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
POLITICAL INTERFERENCE? Senior House Democrat questions role of White House in EPA chemical testing. “A senior House Democrat has voiced concerns that the White House is interfering in tests of potentially harmful commercial chemicals. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection [...]
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Democratic Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, grilled witnesses Thursday on what he called "fraudulent letters" sent to Congress on energy and climate legislation before a crucial House vote on the issue. The select committee said on it's Web site that its members [...]
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TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
As we’ve mentioned a few times on this very site, in order for the United States to agree to any treaty at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, said treaty has to fall within the limits of what the United States unilaterally agrees to implement in combating climate change on the domestic front. As it turns out, many other countries have the same stipulation going into the conference...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
[Great quote by global warming fraud promoter Gavin A. Schmidt] - NYTimes.com “If you ask a scientist how much more CO2 do you think we should add to the atmosphere, the answer is going to be none.” Althouse: "President Obama will almost certainly not travel to the Copenhagen climate change summit in December..." Anyway, how can there be a big climate change conference that everyone...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Over 100 legislators from major economies across the world agreed here on Sunday to key legislation principles on curbing climate change. The principles, set out by Wang Guangtao, chairman of the committee for environmental and resources protection of China's National People's Congress (NPC), and U.S. congressman Edward Markey, are aimed to enact climate change legislation in the major economies. The...
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Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Prepare for climate change, U.S. report warns W.House | World | Reuters Representative Edward Markey, chairman of a House of Representatives global warming panel, recalled the government failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans four years ago. "Katrina foreshadows the consequences of climate change if we do not make the necessary preparations," he said. ... Representative...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
This post is sponsored by IBM’s A Smarter Planet blog. Referred to by many simply as the “Climate Bill,” the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, sponsored by Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), has sparked such controversy in Congress, you’d almost believe the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. In particular, its potential to establish a cap...
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Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A note from my colleague, Eban Goodstein, who is heroically organizing the National Teach In : Dear Colleagues and Friends, Swamp the Senate! (with invitations). This fall, engage your US Senators in dialogue about global warming at your college, university, high school, faith organization or other institution. Invite the Senators to join you at a 90-minute “Signs of Change Teach-in” —we...
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Sierra Club Compass (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
As someone more hip (or nerdy) than me might say, "It is so on." Why? Because tomorrow the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, chaired by Rep. Edward Markey, is holding a hearing on those forged letters to...
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