One of the advocate's suggestions for streamlining the tax code was to repeal the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system intended to make sure rich Americans pay a fair amount in taxes, which is increasingly engulfing middle-class taxpayers.
But these two topics — the Keystone XL pipeline and fossil-fuel divestment — have increasingly become engulfed in highly-charged campaigns and exceptionally heated political debates.
"These today are two nations both sitting astride the Sunni-Shiite fault line engulfed increasingly by sectarian violence whilst the rest of the region has looked on as sectarian tensions rise.
The latest step in an increasingly acrimonious battle engulfing the global clean-energy industry came a day after the United States made a final decision to impose duties on billions of dollars of solar products from China over the next five years, to shield American producers against lower-priced imports.
But starting in 2005, as violence engulfed the country, he grew increasingly disillusioned.
Instead, America evacuated its own nationals, and the civil war in Liberia became an increasingly vicious free-for-all that has since engulfed and devastated Sierra Leone, Guinea and the region's richest and long most stable country, Ivory Coast.
The Pashtuns, who make up about 46 percent of the population, have traditionally ruled the country, but have become increasingly alienated from the government as war has engulfed their regions and they have been squeezed between Taliban insurgents and NATO and government offensives.
Members of Syria's diverse Christian communities are finding themselves engulfed in the fog of war and increasingly targeted, both as pawns of the regime and armed rebels as well as by the rising (if still limited) presence of al Qaeda-linked and other foreign militants in the conflict.
As a campaign of bombings and sectarian killings engulfed the country as of 2004, his job became increasingly dangerous.
