Al Gore Puts on His Capitalist Cap
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 1st, 2009 4:41 am by HL
Al Gore Puts on His Capitalist Cap
Al Gore has thrown plenty of his own money at the climate crisis, but now the Nobel prize-winning philanthropist is hoping to profit from his policy ideas. “An environmental start-up backed by Al Gore’s venture capital firm aims to take advantage of coming U.S. climate change legislation by helping companies like Coca Cola and even cities cut pollution,” reports Reuters.
Reuters:
Hara, a 25-employee company that debuted in 2008, provides online software to help companies reduce their carbon footprint—a $2.5 billion market that will grow 10-fold if the proposed energy bill, which will require companies to get permits for emissions, becomes law, Chief Executive Amit Chatterjee said.
At the heart of the legislation is a “cap-and-trade” system that will gradually reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by industry, by requiring them to have permits to spew their emissions.
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Abortion Doctor Murdered in Church
Dr. George Tiller was volunteering at his Kansas church Sunday when a gunman shot him dead. Republicans in Congress recently made a villain of Tiller when they stalled the confirmation of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, had made campaign contributions to Sebelius.
BBC:
Dr Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed so-called late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US.
His clinic – called Women’s Health Care Services – had often been the site of demonstrations, and he had been shot and wounded by an assailant 16 years ago.
Dr Tiller’s lawyer, Dan Monnat, said he was killed while serving as an usher during a morning church service. His wife was in the choir at the time.
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