Ben White’s Posts

• Toast of the Town 0

  Posted 8 years, 2 months ago

  Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) flew right over the cuckoo's nest and straight into nutville with his widely mocked decision to add "eco-terrorists" to the list of possible suspects responsible for the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

  

  Don Young getting restless.

  For the unlucky few who missed the Alaska congressman's appalling bloviation, here's what he told the Anchorage Daily News: "If you watched what happened [at past protests] in Genoa, in Italy, and even in Seattle, there's some expertise in that field. ... I'm not sure they're that… Read More

• Boston Tree Party 0

  Posted 8 years, 4 months ago

  Last Friday, the Boston Globe printed an angry letter to the editor from Todd Paglia of the environmental group Forest Ethics. The charge? That the Globe advertising department, without reasonable explanation, had refused to run a Forest Ethics ad critical of Massachusetts-based Staples, a major Globe advertiser, and that an ombudsman column backing the department's decision was based on embarrassingly one-sided reporting.

  

  Download a readable version of the ad.

  The ad contains the bold statement that 97 percent of Staples copy paper comes from clearcut forests. In his… Read More

• That '70s Show 0

  Posted 8 years, 6 months ago

  President Bush draws the curtain on the administration's energy policy tomorrow, but there's not much anxious anticipation. This remarkably non-leaky White House has done a pretty good job drib-drabbing out the whole policy, so much so that you'll be forgiven if you feel you've read the same story about what's in the plan 10 different times.

  Muckraker, however, has caught wind of a key memo that wasn't supposed to be leaked, one that lays out how the administration intends to pitch the plan to the American public without getting burned.

  All signs point to the memo's author being none other… Read More

• Fear and Loathing in D.C. 0

  Posted 8 years, 8 months ago

  

  Christie Todd Whitman.

  When it comes to listing body blows inflicted on the environmental movement by the Bush administration in recent days, it's hard to know where to start. Pick up the paper any day of the week and you'll likely find a fresh slap in the face of U.S. EPA "Administrator" Christie Todd Whitman. A backtrack on arsenic standards here, a promise to drill in Alaska there. An Energy secretary quoting the industry-funded Greening Earth Society. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and then others in the White House sticking… Read More

• Whitman Sampler 0

  Posted 8 years, 9 months ago

  Muckraker hears from a reliable and informed source that Linda Fisher, EPA assistant administrator for toxics and pesticides under Bush the Elder, will return to the agency to serve as Christine Todd Whitman's number two.

  The source described the Fisher appointment as close to a done deal, a fact that did not sit altogether well with enviros working on the genetically engineered foods issue. After leaving government, Fisher served a stint as vice president for government and public affairs at Monsanto, a company that Greenpeace's Rick Hind said has "probably led the world in making disastrous decisions on genetically modified… Read More

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