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Offset Your CO2: Buy the Pill for the Poor

The world's population has reached 6.8 billion people, and that number is growing. A year from now, it's said to increase by about 86 million, or over 7 million people a month--enough to fill a city like Hong Kong. The shocking population growth only serves to exacerbate the ever-worsening cl...

Mr Bernanke's curious argument

BARNSTORMING Ben Bernanke took his lobbying effort on behalf of the Federal Reserve to the pages of the Washington Post on Sunday, in an op-ed piece declaring that the Fed needed more authority to oversee the financial system—and that legislative efforts to rein in the Fed threaten its independ...

Bill Scher: Obama Sets The Bar For Copenhagen Success

President Obama announced today that he will attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, raising the stakes for himself and all participating nations.

The initial goal for Copenhagen was to forge a binding treaty. But that ambitious goal has been scaled back. With Ameri...

U.S.-Japan Joint Message on Climate Change Negotiations

Prime Minister Hatoyama and President Obama strongly affirmed their commitment to continuing to work together to usher in a new era in the global fight against climate change, and they recognized each other's achievements toward this shared goal.

The two leaders also reaffirmed that shifting to l...