By Tom King
A Facebook friend shared this excerpt from an Eric Boehlert piece.
It makes the good point that unity and conciliation is earned. The current Republican Party deserves none of it after the outraegous obstruction methods that they have employed. And the press is playing right into the Republican BS. And not just the right-wing squawk machineâ¦we would expect nothing less from themâ¦but when the New York Times starts playing the âbut, what aboutâ¦gameâ, its annoying and obnoxious and deserves to be ignored. Use the political power you were elected to use to pass powerful and popular legislationâ¦and ignore that buzzing sound from the right. They donât deserve anything but our scorn.
Indiana Carbon Market Bill Passes First Hurdle in State Senate A bill backed by farmers and environmental groups that establishes a voluntary carbon market in the state unanimously passes the Senate Natural Resources Committee. Enrique Saenz February 3, 2021
A bill backed by farmers and environmentalists establishing the state’s first carbon market has passed its first hurdle toward becoming a law.
Senate Bill 373, authored by three Republicans, establishes carbon market registration program that facilitates carbon market trading in the state and allows the President Benjamin Harrison Conservation Trust Fund to take part.
Carbon markets work by allowing companies to offset the amount of greenhouse gases they emit by purchasing carbon credits worth a certain amount of carbon dioxide emissions.
President Joe Biden is putting the United States back into the worldwide fight to slow global warming as one of his first acts in office. Biden has pledged to order the United States back into the Paris climate accord within hours of his oath-taking Wednesday.
Today Kamala Harris is making history as not only the highest-ranking female elected official in US history, but also the first African American and first Asian American to ever be vice president.
After she was picked by (the incoming) President Joe Biden as his running mate last year, supporters were quick to highlight the former California Attorney General s accomplished political and legal background. But what about her record on environmental issues?
At the Iowa Democratic caucus in early 2020, over 20 per cent of voters cited the climate as the most important issue for them when deciding who to support. Only 2 per cent of voters ranked the environment as their top priority in 2016.
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