Denver Post’s Vincent Carroll: End tax subsidies, tariffs, and blending requirements for ethanol

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 5th at 04:11 PM  | 

I wrote last week that Kansas’ Sam Brownback is one of 13 Senators who want to continue the not-supported-by-science federal laws that do two things:  place tariffs on foreign ethanol, and give tax credits to American ethanol producers. Here is Vincent Carroll at The Denver Post on a separate coalition of 17 Senators: As it happens, a bipartisan coalition of senators, ranging from Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to | Read More »

Washington Post on Cancun global warming summit: “No surprise that [UN leader] appealed to a Mayan goddess”

By: Benjamin Hodge (Diary)  |  December 4th at 06:02 PM  | 

The liberal Democratic Washington Post is mocking the UN summit: With United Nations climate negotiators facing an uphill battle to advance their goal of reducing emissions linked to global warming, it’s no surprise that the woman steering the talks appealed to a Mayan goddess Monday. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, invoked the ancient jaguar goddess Ixchel in her opening | Read More »