Construction continues on building for Greater Waco Chamber

Photo taken Saturday, December 8, 2007

Senate to rework ambitious energy bill

Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Expected to Be the Focus of Energy Bill

Democratic leaders in the Senate are planning a vote on a retooled energy bill late next week after they failed to muster enough support yesterday to prevent a filibuster of ambitious legislation passed by the House on Thursday. —by Steven Mufson and Jonathan Weisman, staff writers, The Washington Post

Georgia Tech fires coach after six winning seasons

"Nobody likes to get fired," Georgia Tech head football coach Chan Gailey said. "But all they can take is your job. They can't take your faith, they can't take your family and they can't take your integrity. ... You deal with it and you go on."

"I've got to be a little unique," he said. "I'm not sure there's any coaches out there that were in the NFL, went to the playoffs both years and got fired and went to a bowl game six straight years and got fired."
—by Mike Knobler, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

I trust them

by Mike Lukovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Atlanta: New York with Southern manners and charm?

Brand Atlanta, the group formed two years ago to help the city define its image, is switching from the use of slogans to sell the city to the use of themes aimed at specific demographics, Executive Director Melinda Ennis-Roughton said Thursday.

For instance, when the campaign rolls out its newest ads aimed at professionals ages 25-44 this January, the organization will use "City Lights, Southern Nights" -- one of 16 tested themes -- to emphasize Atlanta's reputation as a youthful and energetic city, with great restaurants, shopping and nightlife, said Ennis-Roughton.—by Leon Stafford, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Honored Baptists rejected by own

Al Gore became the third Baptist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, joining Jimmy Carter in 2002 and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

How is it that three sons of the Bible Belt have each won the world's most prestigious award for their advancement of human rights, peacemaking and now earth care?

The Bible is surely part of the answer, because of the role Scripture has played in shaping their moral vision and values.—By Robert Parham, an ordained Baptist minister, and executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics in Nashville from the Atlanta Journal Constitution

Who will succeed Al Gore?

Seeing Al Gore so deservedly share the Nobel Peace Prize, it is impossible not to note the contrast in his leadership and that of George W. Bush.

“Gore, even without the presidency, used all the modern tools of communication, the Internet, video and globalization to reach out and galvanize a global movement,” said David Rothkopf, author of the upcoming “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making.”

“Bush took the greatest platform in the world and dug himself a policy grave," Mr. Rothkopf said.
—by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

Gore donates prize to Climate Protection group

Gore and UN Panel win Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to Al Gore, the former American vice president, and to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to alert the world to the threat of climate change.

Mr. Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, "is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted,” the Nobel citation said.—By Walter Gibbs, The New York Times

9/11 Is over

We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July — which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.—By Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

Sipping from a Utopian well in the desert

The place hums with purpose. An educated, diversely aged and surprisingly international collection of residents rises early each morning for on-site duties: silt casting, or foundry work, or a general tending of the odd, gray structures they call home.—By Chris Colin, The New York Times

The view from the Sky Suite, available to visitors.

Bill Richardson's New Ads: Job Interview and Tell Me

Clinton on climate change

A coalition of 16 of the world’s biggest cities, five banks, one former president and companies and groups that modernize aging buildings on Wednesday pledged investments of billions of dollars to cut urban energy use and releases of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.—By Andrew C. Revkin and Patrick Healy, The New York Times

Green buildings are hot—and cool

The crusade for greener buildings has accelerated with the recognition that powering our homes, offices and factories requires 70 percent of the electricity generated in this country and accounts for 30 percent of our contribution to climate change — the release of greenhouse gases caused by our daily activities.—By Tom Beal, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson

Mr. Bush has no strategy to end his disastrous war and no strategy for containing the chaos he unleashed

This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cut-to-order statistics and a speech from the Oval Office — and none of it either straight or clear.—New York Times Editorial

How low can you go

“The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness,” said (Republican strategist Scott) Reed, sounding exasperated in an interview on Tuesday morning. “You can’t make this stuff up. And the impact this is having on the grass-roots around the country is devastating. Republicans think the governing class in Washington are a bunch of buffoons who have total disregard for the principles of the party, the law of the land and the future of the country.”—Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times

John Young: Minoring in poverty at Baylor

A new program at Baylor University wants students to know the poverty that defines whole neighborhoods and whole generations. It’s the kind of poverty which, more than Americans would like to believe, helps define this land of opportunity.

“By most measures this country (USA) is among the poorest developed nations in the world” — Harlan Beckley, founder and director, Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capacity, Washington and Lee University

Challenging the Generals

“If the general remains silent while the statesman commits a nation to war with insufficient means,” Lt. Col. Paul Yingling writes, “he shares culpability for the results.

“As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”—by Fred Kaplan, The New York Times

Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad would create quagmire

So what happened?

Phil Rizzuto, Yankees Shortstop, Dies at 89

Phil Rizzuto, the sure-handed Hall of Fame Yankees shortstop nicknamed the Scooter who extended his Yankee life as a popular, even beloved, broadcaster, punctuating his game calls with birthday wishes to fans and exclamations of “Holy cow!” died Monday night. He was 89.

Casey Stengel called it "the greatest play I ever saw"—

In the first, Rizzuto, a right-handed batter, was at the plate facing Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians. It was the bottom of the ninth inning, in the middle of a pennant chase, the score tied at 1-1. DiMaggio was on third base. Rizzuto took Lemon’s first pitch, a strike, and argued the call with the umpire. That gave Rizzuto time to grab his bat from both ends, the sign to DiMaggio that a squeeze play was on for the next pitch. But DiMaggio broke early, surprising Rizzuto. Lemon, seeing what was happening, threw high and behind Rizzuto, to avoid a bunt. But with Joltin’ Joe bearing down on him, Rizzuto got his bat up in time to lay down a bunt.

“If I didn’t bunt, the pitch would’ve hit me right in the head,” Rizzuto said. “I bunted it with both feet off the ground, but I got it off toward first base.”

—By RICHARD SANDOMIR, The New York Times

The world’s most powerful economy should be able to provide a health care system that really is the best

Many Americans are under the delusion that we have “the best health care system in the world,” as President Bush sees it, or provide the “best medical care in the world,” as Rudolph Giuliani declared last week. That may be true at many top medical centers. But the disturbing truth is that this country lags well behind other advanced nations in delivering timely and effective care.—Editorial, The New York Times

Karl Rove leaves the White House anything but victorious

“The Rove model was so impressive that the front-runner for the nomination is following the blueprint,” said Mark McKinnon, who worked with Mr. Rove in 2004 and is now advising Mr. McCain’s presidential campaign. “It is almost the Powell doctrine of politics: you just hit them with everything you got, everywhere and at the same time.” The front-runner he was referring to, Mr. McKinnon said, is a Democrat, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.—by Adam Nagourney, The New York Times

Pink flamingo creator: I say it isn't poor taste. It's what you do with it that's poor taste.

At first blush,you wouldn't peg the pink plastic flamingo as the Lawn Ornament Most Likely to Become a Quinquagenarian.

Consider the spindly wire legs. A bright-pink body against a green lawn. That unblinking, deer-in-the-head-lights look. In short, a perfect target in a perpetual open season.

Yet here we are, raising a glass of pink champagne to this pop culture icon, toasting its 50th anniversary.—by Ken Wysocky, Orlando Tribune

Atlanta's 1 Hotel will be LEED certified

Condos and a stylish boutique hotel will be built in the center of Buckhead where partiers used to whoop it up into the wee hours of the morning.

Barry Hotel Partners and Starwood Capital Group Global LLC on Friday will jointly announce plans to develop 1 Hotel & Residences, a brand that's new to Atlanta.

1 Hotel will be a two-tower structure with a spa in the middle. One tower will have 175 hotel rooms topped by 48 condos; the other tower will house 50 condos.

1 Hotel will be LEED certified, meaning it will have to meet certain "green" building standards.—by Kevin Duffy, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Design steps up in disaster's wake

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed Karen Parker’s house on Division Street two summers ago, her first instinct was to leave her storm-ravaged hometown of Biloxi, Miss., behind. But she couldn’t bring herself to abandon two generations of extended family there, any more than she could see living indefinitely with her six children in their 10-foot-wide FEMA trailer. So, a few weeks after the storm, Ms. Parker decided to rebuild on her street.—by Allison Arieff, The New York Times

Lady Bird to Bill Moyers: Just ask questions

Bill Moyers' eulogy for Lady Bird Johnson includes this from 1954:

"Don't worry, Mrs. Johnson said to the young Bill Moyers in 1954. "If you are unsure of what to say, just ask questions, and I promise you that when they leave, they will think you were the smartest one on the room, just for listening to them. Word will get around."—Austin American-Statesman

Prius owners: saving the planet one mile at a time

"I think all Prius owners care about the environment, are Democrats and use Apple computers," said Ben Kittner, 53, of Raleigh. "If that's not true, I don't want to know."—Raleigh News and Observer

What a concept: Tree-lined avenues with lampposts, wide sidewalks and bike lanes

"I think having an attractive street to be on as opposed to four lanes of pavement makes all the difference," Georgia Aquarium spokesperson Dave Santucci said, reeling off a list of restaurants and buildings that have set up near the redeveloped road.—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

From White House on terrorism: Be very afraid. And don't question the president

The director of national intelligence released a report on July 17, with the politically helpful title of “The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” and Fran Townsend, the president’s homeland security adviser, held a news conference to trumpet its findings. The message, as always: Be very afraid. And don’t question the president.—The New York Times, Editorial

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Your political base will melt away as surely as the polar ice caps

"Your political base will melt away as surely as the polar ice caps -- I can guarantee you of that," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said at Georgetown University on Wednesday. "You will become a political penguin on a smaller and smaller ice floe, drifting out to sea. Goodbye, my little friend." —CNN

Did he really say the I-word?

In the April edition of Esquire magazine, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb, described Bush as someone who doesn't believe he's accountable to anyone. "He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends on how this goes," Hagel told the magazine. —by Hope Yen, AP writer, Austin Statesman American

More openness in government (offices, that is)

It’s a good time to be Thom Mayne. A founder of the Los Angeles-based firm Morphosis, he has evolved from brash outsider into one of the country’s most celebrated architects in less than a decade by infusing his industrial-machine aesthetic with a slyly idiosyncratic sensibility. And he pulled that off while taking on an improbable mix of clients, including public school administrators and government bureaucrats. —by Nicolai Ouroussoff, The New York Times

Update light bulb? What a concept

A coalition of industrialists, environmentalists and energy specialists is banding together to try to eliminate the incandescent light bulb in about 10 years.—by Matthew L. Ward, The New York Times

Going green in Waco

On the Greater Waco Chamber's new 14,000-square-foot building which is designed to meet national "green building" standards, president Jim Vaughan said, “I’m in the business of economic development. But I think we can grow the economy and improve our environment.” —by J.B. Smith, staff writer, Waco Tribune-Herald

Google's buses help its workers beat the rush

The company now ferries about 1,200 employees to and from Google daily — nearly one-fourth of its local work force — aboard 32 shuttle buses equipped with comfortable leather seats and wireless Internet access. Bicycles are allowed on exterior racks, and dogs on forward seats, or on their owners’ laps if the buses run full. —by Miguel Helft, The New York Times

When it's good business to be green

The Waco Trib's John Young on the the new direction for TVU Corp.—

Marc Lipschultz and Mike MacDougall were winging it, which is not the same thing as faking it.

All they did was shut down an assault on the environment of a scope that was, literally, breathtaking.

U.S. predicting steady increase for emissions

The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.—by Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times

AZ, CA, NM, OR, WA in accord on goals to reduce greenhous gas

Arizona and four other Western states agreed Monday to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from utilities, cars, oil and gas operations, and other industries in an effort to curb global warming.

But Tucson Metropolitan Chamber exec says it's a federal problem.

"There's a whole lot of things you need to do before you put in regulations that may be so onerous that business can't comply and it disrupts the economy," Camper said.—Tony Davis and Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star

Stewart Brand on nuclear power

“There were legitimate reasons to worry about nuclear power, but now that we know about the threat of climate change, we have to put the risks in perspective,” Stewart Brand says. “Sure, nuclear waste is a problem, but the great thing about it is you know where it is and you can guard it. The bad thing about coal waste is that you don’t know where it is and you don’t know what it’s doing. The carbon dioxide is in everybody’s atmosphere.”—by John Tierney, The New York Times

TXU news release on going private

TXU: As a result of this transaction, the newly privatized company will deliver price cuts and price protection benefits to electric customers, strengthen environmental policies, make significant investments in alternative energy and institute corporate policies tied to climate stewardship.—TXU News Release,

A buyout deal that has many shades of green

TXU sale will be noteworthy not just for its size, but for the confluence of business decisions and environmental concerns that drove the ultimate transaction.

“We didn’t want to be on the wrong side of history,” said a person involved in the bidding group who was not authorized to talk about the transaction before its formal announcement, which is expected today.—By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times

Gore: Will to act is renewable resource

"It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it,'' Al Gore declared in accepting the Oscar for documentary films. His 95-minute film, "An Inconvient Truth," also won for best song.

An alternative fuel advocate, Jimmy Carter feels vindicated

"President Carter was ahead of his time," said Joseph Romm, an energy expert at the Center for American Progress, a think tank in Washington. "Even President Bush now talks about the need to save energy. Bush is no Jimmy Carter, but at least he has been forced to pay rhetorical homage to him. Carter has been vindicated."—by Dan Chapman, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Al Gore, rock star

Al Gore is escaping the fate of most former politicians, says Matt Bennett, a consultant for Democrats who worked closely with Gore during his vice presidency. "Usually defeated -- or allegedly defeated -- party nominees become pariah

Bennett credits savvy handling by people around Gore, including the documentary-makers. And he says the world is catching up with Gore. "Look, this guy was a visionary. He was right about everything, even the stuff he was ridiculed for," Bennett says. "He was right about the Internet, he was right about the first Gulf War, he was sure as hell right about the Iraq war. And he was right about global warming."—By William Booth, staff writer, Washington Post

In big buyout, utility to limit new coal plants

Under a proposed $45 billion buyout by a team of private equity firms, the TXU Corporation, a Texas utility that has long been the bane of environmental groups, will abandon plans to build 8 of 11 coal plants and commit to a broad menu of environmental measures, according to people involved in the negotiations.—By FELICITY BARRINGER and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times

Cleaner coal is attracting some doubts

Within the next few years, power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants to meet growing electricity demands. Despite expectations that global warming rules are coming, almost none of the plants will be built to capture the thousands of tons of carbon dioxide that burning coal spews into the atmosphere. —by Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times

Think small: A wave of interest in small dwellings

When John Friedman and Kristin Shepherd of Berkeley, Calif., purchased 160 acres in the mountains near Telluride, Colo., it was with the intent to build — just not right away. Before designing a small, ecologically sensitive second home they wanted to spend a year or two visiting the land to determine the most suitable building site. But at an elevation of 9,600 feet, living in tents was out.—by Bethany Lyttle, The New York Times

Texas companies plan wind, gas, coal power plants

Bid to connect state to Panhandle energy a contrast to TXU effort.

Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state's future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.—by Jim Landers and Elizabeth Souder, The Dallas Morning News

Rival firms dispute coal gasification

TXU Corp.'s plan to build 11 coal-fired power plants became the center of debate at a national energy conference Thursday, with the head of a New Jersey company advocating coal gasification as a cleaner source of electricity for Texas.—by Dan Piller, staff writer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Coal debate generates high-dollar ad campaigns

A teddy-bear-clutching child kept safe from monsters by an electric night light and a coal-smudged face from a Dickensian nightmare of grime and death: These are the opposing emotional icons in the biggest environmental-business war in Texas history.—by Randy Lee Loftis and Elizabeth Souder, The Dallas Morning News

Waco Trib names 16 "Difference Makers"

Jim Vaughan might tell you he was just "doing his job" when he led the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce to adopt a long-range master plan, highlighted by a new downtown office building, but it was a lot more. His steady determination, belief that Waco can be more than ever thought possible, and willingness to work long and hard go above and beyond just doing a job.

Note: I appreciate being recognized, but I will accept the award in the name of our Chamber's outstanding volunteer leaders and staff. —Jim Vaughan

A new Peachtree for $1 billion

More than 50 years after streetcars vanished from Atlanta, a group of business and civic leaders have a $1 billion, 20-year plan to bring them back along a dramatically revitalized Peachtree Street corridor.

Unveiled Tuesday, the recommendation envisions an overhaul of the city's signature thoroughfare to include new sidewalks and bicycle lanes, improved lighting and landscaping, buried utility lines and a string of small parks and plazas, about one every quarter-mile. The plan, which is being fine-tuned, would be financed in part with new taxes on property owners along the street.—by Paul Donsky and Maria Saporta, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Austin is also capital of construction

After boom and bust cycles, Greater Austin Chamber was determined to make sure the good times lasted. In 2004, the Chamber started a five-year plan to make the economy more diverse. —by Kristina Shevory, The New York Times

City that loves transit looks to the sky for more

The view from the new silver spheres strung across the sky here will not always be as stunning as it was on this sunbeam weekend: Mount Hood regal in the late light, Mount St. Helens a mystery in the distance, the downtown skyline sharp but self-effacing, smart enough to know its place amid mightier peaks.

Yet even if the opening of the Portland’s newest and most exotic form of public transportation — the $57 million Portland Aerial Tram — had been met with the more customary drizzle and drear of winter here, the ride would still have been a thrill.—by William Yardley, The New York Times

A belief tank?

Selling emissions credits eliminates the promised reduction

TXU’s promise to reduce its power-plant pollution by 20 percent came under fire this week after an executive testified that the company reserves the right to sell those offsets to other polluters as “emissions credits.”

“We were pleased to hear of TXU’s plan to reduce overall emissions by 20 percent,” said Julia Jurgenson, an attorney representing the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce in the contested-case hearing.

“However, if what that really means is that TXU may sell the official emissions credits to other companies — which would in effect eliminate the reduction — this causes us great concern.”—by J.B. Smith, Waco Tribune-Herald

Look who is running in a nontraditional way

Al Gore has replaced his image as a boring, cautious technocrat with that of a dynamic, plain-spoken visionary.

"We've seen the real Al Gore," says Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos. "Not the prepackaged, consultant-muzzled Al Gore, but the actual, this-is-what-Al-Gore-who-doesn't-give-a-shit-about-winning-elections looks like." —by Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone

Politics has changed (or has it?)

(Former US Senator George) Smathers badgered the incumbent, Senator Claude Pepper, (in their 1950 race for the Senate) on (Pepper's) support of civil rights and said that (Pepper's) pleas for patience with the Soviet Union made him a communist sympathizer. But he denied uttering the most famous remarks attributed to him — innocuous declarations delivered to less-educated audiences to appear scandalous.

“Do you know that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert?” Mr. Smathers was quoted as saying. “Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.”

Smathers died on Saturday. He was 93.

Utilities that rush new coal plants now won't get bigger emission breaks later

Any company planning to spend billions of dollars on new coal-fired power plants, and any investor in such a company, should think carefully about how to spend their funds so as to be part of the solution to climate change, not a part of the problem.—by Jeff Bingaman, chair, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Barbara Boxer, chair, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in OpEd piece in the Dallas Morning News

Here's a good outline for the next president's inaugural speech

At a banquet (at the University of Georgia) Saturday evening, President Jimmy Carter presented what he called "a good outline for the next president's inaugural speech."

As the only superpower, he said, the United States should become "the pre-emininent proponent for peace ... the strongest protector of international law ... and the most generous nation on earth in the relieving of human suffering." —by Tom Baxter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Coal tops legislative agenda

Coal-burning power plants, smog and toxic pollution are pushing the environment high on the Legislature's agenda in 2007. Environmental lobbyists say a combination of electric companies' massive building plans and public health worries could bring changes in how Texas deals with energy and air quality.—by Randy Lee Loftis

Everything's big in Texas—and that includes Waco's mammoths

You might know about Dr Pepper, invented in a Waco drugstore back in 1885. You might know about the Texas Rangers, the legendary law enforcement agency honored in a Waco hall of fame.

But do you know about the mammoths?

Turns out they were wandering across Waco and Central Texas way before the Lone Ranger ever put on a mask or Charles Alderton began experimenting with soda fountain flavors.
—by Allen Holder, The Kansas City Star

Cowboys stadium architect hopes giant project won't be his 'defining moment'

Bryan Trubey: "In Japan they believe you're not really prepared for your life's work until 60 at the earliest. For after that is when you begin to produce your truly seminal works."—Michael Granberry, The Dallas Morning News

In Obliging Waco, Dr Pepper Is the King

A five-minute walk east along the River Walk leads to the Texas Ranger museum, which preserves the mystique of the law enforcers of the Old West days with silver badges, white cowboy hats and lots and lots of guns, including shotguns that the Rangers took from Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after ambushing them in their car.
By FINN-OLAF JONES, The New York Times

LaDainian: Legacy of Tomlinson Hill

“Terrell Owens plays for the Cowboys and he’s a clown,” Ronnie Neumann said. “LaDainian (Tomlinson) plays the game right. He makes us proud.”

Neumann lives at Tomlinson Hill, about 45 miles from Waco, LaDainian's hometown where he returns every off-season.



“I know the hill isn’t really named for us,” LaDainian Tomlinson said. “But I take pride in it, and I take pride in my name. When I think of that hill, I think of my family. When people look at it, I want them to think about me and my family.”—By Lee Jenkins, The New York Times

The "First 100 Hours"

The clock begins ticking next week on the U.S. House Democrats’ ambitious first 100-hour agenda, which is comprised of a series of measures that Democrats say they promised voters when they were brought to power in November.

Monday: Implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations

Wednesday: Increase the minimum wage

Thursday: Expand stem cell research

Jan. 12: Allow negotiation for lower prescription drug costs

Jan. 17: Cut interest rates on student loans

Jan. 18: End subsidies for oil companies and invest in renewable energy