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When it comes to government, more is not better. Less is not better. Only better is better.
Some headlines from Joe Romm's Climate Progress Blog:
Can an Agreement on Short-Term Climate Pollutants Help Close the Looming Emissions Gap?
Reducing short-lived gases is only effective as part of broader CO2 reduction strategy
By Stephen Lacey on Feb 16, 2012 at 3:17 pm
A new plan to tackle short-lived pollutants may help bridge the gap between current emission reduction pledges and what is actually needed by 2020 to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius..
Reducing short-lived gases is only effective as part of broader CO2 reduction strategy
By Stephen Lacey on Feb 16, 2012 at 3:17 pm
A new plan to tackle short-lived pollutants may help bridge the gap between current emission reduction pledges and what is actually needed by 2020 to keep global temperatures from rising more than 2° Celsius..
Highly recommended, details right wing strategy to stop rulemaking:
Clean Air Now: Federal Register Publishes Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
Pro-pollution Sen. Inhofe aims to block life-saving standards
By Arpita Bhattacharyya and Daniel J. Weiss
Americans can celebrate a big step toward cleaner air and healthier communities today as the final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants are published in the Federal Register. This is a significant milestone for the life-saving Environmental Protection Agency rules that were announced on December 16, 2011. However, these long overdue safeguards from the known neurotoxin mercury continue to face relentless attacks from coal heavy utilities, coal companies and their Congressional allies. Today, Senator Inhofe (R-OK) filed a Congressional Review Act resolution to block the rule, just as it made it onto the Federal Register....
Pro-pollution Sen. Inhofe aims to block life-saving standards
By Arpita Bhattacharyya and Daniel J. Weiss
Americans can celebrate a big step toward cleaner air and healthier communities today as the final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plants are published in the Federal Register. This is a significant milestone for the life-saving Environmental Protection Agency rules that were announced on December 16, 2011. However, these long overdue safeguards from the known neurotoxin mercury continue to face relentless attacks from coal heavy utilities, coal companies and their Congressional allies. Today, Senator Inhofe (R-OK) filed a Congressional Review Act resolution to block the rule, just as it made it onto the Federal Register....
Senators Take Emergency Oil Reserve Hostage to Force Keystone Approval
In a desperate attempt to force Keystone XL, three Senators are threatening access to a vital economic and national security safeguard, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
by Daniel J. Weiss
Republican Congressional leaders have failed to force President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. But that’s not stopping them from trying over and over again, taking hostages in the process...
In a desperate attempt to force Keystone XL, three Senators are threatening access to a vital economic and national security safeguard, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
by Daniel J. Weiss
Republican Congressional leaders have failed to force President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. But that’s not stopping them from trying over and over again, taking hostages in the process...
Cold Cash, Cool Climate: To Solve Climate Change, What Kind of Government Do We Want?
When it comes to government, more is not better. Less is not better. Only better is better. And better is what we as a society should strive for.
by Jonathan Koomey, in an excerpt from his new book “Cold Cash, Cool Climate”
Imagine a company where the CEO says “We’ll never raise prices, borrow money, or increase our expenses under any circumstances, nor will we act to expand existing or create new markets when we have a competitive advantage in doing so.” You’d think that CEO was loony. But this is exactly what some say about government when they say that spending and taxes should never increase, that environment regulations should always be relaxed, and that government should always do less than it’s doing now...
When it comes to government, more is not better. Less is not better. Only better is better. And better is what we as a society should strive for.
by Jonathan Koomey, in an excerpt from his new book “Cold Cash, Cool Climate”
Imagine a company where the CEO says “We’ll never raise prices, borrow money, or increase our expenses under any circumstances, nor will we act to expand existing or create new markets when we have a competitive advantage in doing so.” You’d think that CEO was loony. But this is exactly what some say about government when they say that spending and taxes should never increase, that environment regulations should always be relaxed, and that government should always do less than it’s doing now...
"When it comes to government, more is not better. Less is not better. Only better is better. And better is what we as a society should strive for."
These and more at: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/issue/?mobile=nc
