Environmental Protection agency (EPA) insiders claim Vice President Dick Cheney was responsible for blocking California’s proposal to toughen auto emission standards:
Staff at the agency (EPA), which announced last week that California’s proposed limits were redundant, said the agency’s chief went against their expert advice after car executives met Cheney, and a Chrysler executive delivered a […]

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Only three countries on the planet do not use the 200-year old Metric system: Liberia, Myanmar, and…you guessed it: The United States.
Why doesn’t the US use the Metric system?
In 1975, the US passed the Metric Conversion Act, intending to finally adopt the base-10 Metric system and abandon the previous system based on seeds and bodyparts. […]

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