The New York Time’s Thomas Friedman chastises Congress for ceding “the next great global industry” — energy technology — to China, and urges President Obama to exert sustained leadership to pass an energy bill that prices carbon. His support has political risks, but it’s citical to America’s 21st century


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SCOTUS Poised to Handcuff the EPA
In the wake of reactionary rulings by the Supreme Court that seized a woman’s right to abortion after the Justices had unleashed potentially lethal freedoms to gun owners, one can only shudder at the prospect of the court’s upcoming decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).