Howie Chong

The biggest news out of Copenhagen over the past 24 hours did not originate in the Danish capital, but rather from Washington DC, where the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that Carbon Dioxide and the five other major greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human and environmental health. The annoncement makes the creation of a binding global agreement more likely, even if it doesn’t occur at this summit.

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T. Boone Pickens, a Texas oil man and a major donor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth – the organization that discredited John Kerry and helped bring George W. Bush back to the White House in 2004 – has become one of the biggest backers of wind power in the United States.

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