Lots of Energy-Related News in the Wall Street Journal

Both of yesterday’s lead stories in the WSJ re-assert Rupert Murdoch’s ultra-right-wing position that the public sector needs to refrain from setting energy policy that would affect private enterprise – even as the ecological toll of business-as-usual continues to escalate. In particular:

The front-page lead story “Climate Panel Faces Heat” is another in a long-running series suggesting that global warming is a hoax, engineered presumably by greedy climate scientists all grabbing for grant money.

“US Wants Report Card for Cars,” is the headline story in the second section, (“Marketplace”). It begins, “The government proposed labeling each new passenger car with a letter grade from A to D,” and points out how the plan is criticized in that the government is making a judgement as to the value of cars.

Wasn’t there a time a when newspapers just reported the news?