Jackie Mason talks with a young man about the presidency of Barack Obama, the past eight years of Bush-era energy policy, and the environmental impacts of drilling for oil in Alaska. Mason’s take on the land use changes from oil development sounded a lot like the line of argument we heard from Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the ‘drill here, drill now,’ drill-baby-drill crowd throughout 2008.
Speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today, U.S. President Barack Obama threw strong support behind clean energy and technology, touting America’s history of innovation and not shying away from problems.
In Peru, the government has acted on the financially troubled and environmentally challenged Doe Run Peru smelter. Their response to the closure of the site has been to give the operators a 30-month extension on their previous environmental clean-up deadline.
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