Big business has pressured state lawmakers into killing a bill that might have kept unwanted telemarketers off your back. It's an Earth Day conundrum. The University of Colorado produces fewer greenhouse gases than it did a decade ago. Yet energy consumption is soaring. If the latter trend isn't reversed, emissions will soon climb, just when they should fall.
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Surprisingly, the state's highest court understands this. His liberty is on the line again, so expect a command performance. That's quite a trick. Instead, the judge ordered a new trial. So it is the children, not the convicted man, who bear a new burden.