GOP in Congress Killing Global Warming Committee

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Is Global Warming and Climate Change an important enough issue that there should be a special committee of the House of Representatives to deal with it? Not according to incoming Republicans. At the New York Times, Jennifer Steinhauer reports that a spokesman for Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) says they will kill the committee. [...]

Kick Out The Corn – The End of Ethanol Subsidies?

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Ethanol has been a disaster. Once pushed as an alternative fuel that could help the planet, corn-based ethanol was done all wrong – and ends up costing more in greenhouse gas emissions than regular gas. It never made economic sense without taxpayer handouts – but it made political sense thanks to the clout of farm-state [...]