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The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Congressional Investigations

House of Representatives

Basic Sources: 

Copenhagen Conference website

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change website

 From  the Conference 

Many newspapers have been providing extensive coverage before, during and after the Conference.  For example, see

UK Guardian site

By Quinn McKew

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• Rail Transport
• Air transport
• Marine transport   

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Bills enacted in 2008:

Since 2008 was an election year, Congress moved decisively on very few pieces of environmental legislaton. Here are a few highlights:

The Democratic Party: this section requires updating 

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When discussing the challenges presented by Peak Oil and other resource depletion, global warming and all of the economic and geopolitical strife that they will cause, a colleague from Texas once gave me the advice, "Water and Bullets".