Romney Unveils Energy Plan

Thursday, August 23, 2012 Romney Unveils Energy Plan By Steve Holland LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug 23 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will lay out policies on Thursday aimed at achieving North American energy independence by 2020 by pursuing a sharp increase in production of oil and natural gas on federal lands and off the U.S. coast. 'Kind Of Like There's A Bully In The Playground' Arctic Sea Ice Area May Have Reached Record Low One Year Later: The Earthquake That Rattled The East Coast Drought Continues Despite Cooler Weather Tropical Storm Isaac Likely To Become Hurricane BLOG POSTS Rick Nahmias: FOOD -- It Really Does Grow on Trees Knowing the resources we have growing in this country and the appalling truth about our food waste, no American should be hungry. Not one. One vital solution that costs nothing -- yes, nothing -- is a perspective shift around food. Terry Tamminen: Should Walmart Write America's Energy Plan? Walmart may not be a country but it has a stated goal of becoming 100% renewable energy powered. With two million associates and 150 million shoppers, does this "nation" have an energy policy worth emulating? Dr. Reese Halter: Bats Respond to Global Warming, More Females In March 15,000 warm temperature records were shattered across the United States. In addition to disrupting plants, it turns out that these warm temperatures profoundly impacted pregnant bats. Duane Elgin: Global Warming and Carbon Dioxide Ethics What are the ethics of irretrievably mutilating an entire planet? When will humanity express its moral outrage that it is wrong to devastate an entire planet for countless generations to come, just to satisfy the consumer desires of a fraction of humanity for a single lifetime? Eileen Flanagan: For African Environmentalists, Time to Get Beyond Polar Bears How does Greenpeace -- which has historically been associated with not only white people, but often with furry, white animals -- grow roots on a continent where environmental devastation has often been perpetrated by Westerners?

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