Ends and odds, 3/15/07

Attorney General Darrell McGraw...

Still handing out the state's money as if it were his own personal checking account.

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For the global warming fans, AEP is supposed to announce today that it will go ahead with its carbon dioxide sequestration project in Mason County, W.Va.

Here is AEP's own news release on the subject.

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One other thing about global warming that bothers me. Thanks to the Al Gore movie, global warming has taken center stage in discussions about the environment. I've already mentioned that I get really irritated when I hear reporters and TV anchors blame every weather anomoly to global warming.

But in the hype over GW, other things are not talked about. Take mercury. Coal-fired power plants put a lot of mercury into the environment, but did you know a lot of mercury floats from China and lands in the United States? But it's not talked about much.

China's coal-fired power generation -- and India's -- gets lost in the talk. We talk about what we can do, as though changing the light bulbs in my house will cool the earth. But we don't talk nearly enough about what other nations are doing to us environmentally. Exempting them from Kyoto showed how pointless that agreement was.

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