Recent Washington Watch articles by Better World Club

"Cap and Trade?"

Last week, Democratic leadership in the Senate deferred the �cap and trade� provisions of its energy bill. (Perhaps quotation marks should also be placed around �deferred� as it�s not clear if this proposal will be considered again.) �Cap and trade� is environmental language that would finally enable a price to be established for carbon. Progressives and environmentalists nee (read more of this article))

Boy, This Oil Spill Has Gone On a L...

Oil Spill? Given how long the BP oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, isn�t �spill� a bit�hmmm�understated??? This is a disaster, a catastrophe, a tragedy. After all, the spill has lasted a long, long time. In fact, it�s gone on so long that, it�s now longer than � U.S. military efforts in the 1991 Gulf War � The 2010 NBA (read more of this article))

Corrections - Last Washington Watch...

In the April 20th issue of Kicking Asphalt, we published a piece by former BWC employee and Greenpeace organizer Michael Schultz defending President Obama's decision to increase drilling off the U.S. Coast. The title of the article read, ''Hey, If You're Going to Use That Drill, How About Some Novocaine? Or Is Obama's Policy One That An Environm (read more of this article))

Gonna Drill? How About Some Novocai...

by Michael Shultz, Former Greenpeace City Coordinator for Portland and BWC Employee (statements do not represent the positions of Greenepace) President Obama's recent announcement on opening up huge areas of America's coastal oceans to drilling predictably drew the ire of both environmentalists and the "Drill baby, drill!" crowd. But given Obama's st (read more of this article))

Ralph Nader Responds in Advance to ...

In the March 17th edition of Kicking Asphalt, we published an article on the need to re-evaluate and revitalize the relationship between automakers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. That necessity has been made particularly apparent as a result of the NHTSA's difficulty in pinpointing the exact problems behind Toyota's (read more of this article))

Unsafe at Any Unintended Speed

On March 5, a Congressional panel investigating the safety recall of millions of Toyota vehicles over problems with unexpected acceleration requested that Toyota submit more convincing documents to prove that electronics systems were not the source of acceleration problems. Toyota executives had appeared at Congressional hearings during the last week of February (read more of this article))