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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