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The head of a controversial “clean coal” group may have just plain told un-truths at yesterday’s congressional hearing on the climate letter-forging scandal (Mother Jones) GM’s new CEO says the Obama administration was “fair” to insist on pay cuts at the company (Det News) Policymakers still falling in love with electric cars — now California’s … Continued

By Elana Schor

7:49 AM EDT on October 30, 2009

The head of a controversial “clean coal” group may have just plain told un-truths at yesterday’s congressional hearing on the climate letter-forging scandal (Mother Jones)
GM’s new CEO says the Obama administration was “fair” to insist on pay cuts at the company (Det News)
Policymakers still falling in love with electric cars — now California’s governor is giving one auto company a $320 million sales tax break (San Jose Biz Jrnl)
Speaking of electric cars, Nissan believes they can be competitively priced within three years … assuming drivers have anywhere to charge them (Dow Jones)
Yes, gadget-using travelers, Amtrak is planning to add wi-fi internet (Wash Biz Jrnl)
Was Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (D-SC) op-ed on a climate change compromise really that, well, compromise-y? One conservative group cites the senator’s office as saying he opposes action “at this point” (AFP Blog)
Banter from the Senate debate on distracted driving, including this quip from Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV): “When President Obama was giving his State of the Union address, half the Congress was texting … it’s lethal behavior when you get in a car” (Wired)

Elana Schor

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