Issues
National Safety Council Calls for Nationwide Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving
Bold Plan Seeks to Involve Law Makers, Businesses and Public
Itasca, Ill. – The National Safety Council today is calling on motorists to stop using cell phones and messaging devices while driving, and is urging businesses to enact policies prohibiting it and governors and legislators in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to pass laws banning the behavior.
Just Do It
July 1, 2009
By Thomas L. Friedman
Unfortunately the Energy-Climate bill has more holes than cheese.
June 26, 2009
…The bill’s renewable energy provisions fall far short of technology can provide. The requirement for the cleaner coal plants wouldn’t take effect until 2025-and that technology doesn’t exist. And the bill revokes EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from coal plants. That’s a step backwards. …
Cash for clunkers, part 2: more questions and answers
June 22, 2009
Q: I own and drive two 1979 Fords — a customized van and a Lincoln Continental. Both are in good shape and I keep them maintained. However, since the clunker rule only allows vehicles made no earlier than 1984, I am barred from participating. Isn’t this age discrimination?
Open Mic in The Arena
June 20-21, 2009
Question(s) of the day: Cash for clunkers
June 19, 2009
Congress only provided $1 billion for the program, but everyone figures that’s just a down payment. "The industry is going to come racing back for more money," says Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign.
Honda shows off its ‘green halo’
June 8, 2009
"In contrast to General Motors saying the world will end if you pass this, Honda was saying we can live with it," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, an environmental lobby in Washington. "It was fairly earth-shattering — or earth-mending."