Overnight Thread and Video- President Obama on 40th Anniversary of Earth Day Plus Bonus Earth Day Cartoons

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Treasury goes electronic for Earth Day, saving $400M

By GottaLaff

Silly Treasury. Don't they realize there's no such thing as global warming?

The Treasury Department is marking Earth Day by announcing plans to reduce paper use by millions of pounds.

Treasury says the initiative -- which expands the use of electronic transactions for Social Security and other benefits -- will save over $400 million and 12 million pounds of paper over the first five years.

What's Treasury got against paper? What is this, some kind of socialist plot? A pro-tree conspiracy? Or is this the Obama administration's way of keeping secret files, hmmm?

Video- President Obama Marks 40th Anniversary of Earth Day

VIDEO: Al Gore calls for climate change bill by Earth Day 2010

By GottaLaff

Al Gore yesterday called for climate change bill by Earth Day (April, 2010). Our old pal Cliff Schecter sent me the video:




Full disclosure: Cliff consults for the Alliance for Climate Protection. And that gives me one more reason to be proud to know him.

Cartoon of the Day

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President Obama to head to Iowa for Earth Day

Somehow I doubt Earth Day is going to be the topic du jour.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is going on the road to pitch his energy plan — as well as environmentally friendly jobs production — in a hard-hit Iowa town, while administration officials make a similar push back in Washington.

The White House's Earth Day message comes as Obama has watched his energy legislation stall in Congress. Obama's Environmental Protection Agency chief and energy and transportation secretaries all were scheduled to testify before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Wednesday with themes similar to Obama, who planned a swift visit to economically struggling Newton, Iowa.

White House aides said the president would highlight his plans to create jobs and protect the environment. He planned to tour — then tout — Newton's Trinity Structural Towers wind energy plant as a model for job creation and energy production in a town whose biggest employer was sold and then stopped operations.