Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:56 AM
Need-To-Know Memo, March 31
By Christopher Snow Hopkins, NationalJournal.com
Updated at 11:02 a.m. on March 31.
1) In a speech this morning at Andrews Air Force Base, President Obama is expected to sanction oil drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and a vast expanse off the coast of Middle and Southern Atlantic states. The administration is not expected to authorize drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska (New York Times).
2) The U.S. and France may "put some pressure" on countries that do not undertake measures to battle climate change, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said yesterday after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy (AFP).
3) Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Richard Lugar, R-Ind., is circulating a climate strategy that does not center on a cap-and-trade mechanism (NationalJournal.com).
4) A British parliamentary panel has found that the scientists implicated in "Climategate" did not in fact cook the books (AP).
5) Greenpeace published a report yesterday attacking Koch Industries for pouring tens of millions of dollars into lobbying, public relations and research campaigns designed to undermine confidence in the science of climate change (NationalJournal.com).
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