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The wider perspective Justinian Dispenza In his letter of Dec. 18, Dave Cooper of Churubusco writes of House Resolution 109. You will know it as the Green New Deal. One of the bill's supporters and sponsors is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, but she is not the only one. And it would be a disservice to the public not to mention a few of the others. Other notable supporters include Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate in economics, professor at Columbia University and chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute; Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate in economics and professor at the Graduate Cente...

UPDATE: Greenpeace sent a photographer to the area, and while the photographer was prevented from getting close, he got some good shots here. Also, both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News devoted primetime to this “sludgeslide” (below the cut). And finally, frontpage NYTimes tomorrow AM will have this article on the ashslide: Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards. The Kingston Steam Plant ashslide is already being called the southeast’s worst environmental disaster by some environmentalists and journalists. It appears that some of the national media outlets are finally picki...

Or even noticed. what's your reaction to that? >> yeah, we had a briefing from mr. cooper, members of congress. and the follow-up from that briefing or the follow-up from the comments that he made today and yesterday is quite simply that, you know, let's look at the keystone comprehensively. and one of them has to be safety, public safety in particular and the fact that any deliberate sabotage of key portions of that pipeline will create millions and millions of spill of this sludge that's worse than an oil spill and contaminate and ruin parts of the heartland. so let's look at it in the compr...

Energy. and the pipeline harkens back to, again, becoming dependent on fossil fuels. and that extraction as a means of energy production. i think it's a contradiction. one goes with the other. regardless of the chicken littles republicans in congress that the sky is falling, jobs will end, the economy will stop. on the contrary, it now gives us an opportunity to begin to make the changes necessary in our work force training, education for the future. >> there's a recent report out, security vulnerabilities of the keystone xl pipeline really have not been given a lot of attention .but dave coop...

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