Bird’s-Eye View

Did you catch this Associated Press story on A1 of the Intell today?:
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its enforcement personnel not to talk with congressional investigators and reporters, and even the agency’s own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press.
The June 16 e-mail tells 11 officials in the EPA’s […]

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Excellent. U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is leading a Republican delegation to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in photo-op/staged event to drum up support for oil drilling there.
From CNN.com:
Calling the trip the “American Energy Tour,” the Republican Members will stop first at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado on Friday, […]

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… never hurt anyone, right?
Factcheck.org has taken John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee to task twice today for false claims made against Democrat Barack Obama. Here’s the first one:
A new ad from the Republican National Committee claims Barack Obama proposes “no new solutions” for the energy and climate crises. In fact, the Illinois senator […]

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Watching the evening news gave me a sense of how American auto makers just don’t get it. Dodge is offering a new program where you get a special card and receive $2.99-a-gallon unleaded gasoline or diesel for up to 12,000 miles or three years. The program is called “Refuel America,” but if they want to […]

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12:37 p.m. McCain’s exiting now. Nothing much new, and he’s exiting to the (CLICHE ALERT! CLICHE ALERT!) the Rocky theme. McCain’s not learning much from Clinton’s failures. She invoked Rocky but forget the movie involves a white boxer who went toe-to-toe but did not defeat the charismatic African-American champion with a funny name.
12:33 p.m. WOW! […]

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From Newsweek, the U.S. Department of the Interior plans to list polar bears as “threatened” but not endangered.
From the online version:
This is the first time that the Endangered Species Act has been used to protect a species threatened by the impacts of global warming. There has been concern within the business community that such action […]

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This is why people should care more about polar bears beyond just seeing them jump into the deep blue water tank at their local zoo. See, polar bears may end up being the trumpet pronouncing a radical shift in how the United States deals with global warming.
A U.S. District Court has ordered the Bush administration to […]

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