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Capturing the massive social benefits of fuel efficiency requires regulation 6
Posted 6 days, 16 hours ago This Friday is the deadline for public comments on the stricter vehicle efficiency standards from EPA and the Department of Transportation. The docket is likely to be overrun with statements for and against the regulation that would make cars and light trucks 30 percent more efficient in 5 years.
Time to Speak Out Against the Biggest Polluters 0
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago
Where's the Love?

Why won’t Lisa Jackson/Nancy Sutley visit a mountaintop removal site? 0
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago
Where there's a will ...

Can EPA regulations on CO2 be blocked? 11
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago It's widely assumed that if Congress fails to pass a clean energy bill, the EPA will step in to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007's Mass v. EPA that the agency must do so if it finds CO2 to be a danger -- and sure enough, the EPA sent the White House its final endangerment finding Monday. EPA regulations now appear inevitable and unstoppable. But don't be so sure.
EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 28
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel are EPA attorneys who have taken up advocating against cap-and-trade on behalf of rebated carbon taxes, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed. They also posted a video to YouTube making many of the same arguments at somewhat greater length. Now the EPA has instructed them to take the video down by the close of business today, at pain of disciplinary action from EPA ethics officials, and to submit any future drafts to EPA officials before posting.
tallying toxic threats

Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them.
Avoiding the Paralysis by Analysis Gambit

Boxer Proceeds with Clean Energy and Climate Protection Bill Despite Republican Boycott 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 1 2
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago While the obstructionists attempt to block progress, they will also stop many provisions that would benefit Americans. Daniel J. Weiss lists a number of important benefits that government and academic analyses determined about ACES that also apply to the CEJAPA.
back to the future, as plunder of Appalachia continues

Interior will consider mountaintop removal rule in 2011? 0
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago While anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation, a legal representative for the Department of Interior filed the DOI's intention to consider a revision of the blatant Bush-era hijacking of the 25-year-old stream buffer zone rule, which was intended to stop mine waste from being dumped within a 100 feet of streams ... in 2011.
N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand answers Grist’s questions on the Kerry-Boxer bill 1
Posted 1 month ago New York's new senator is a strong proponent of climate change legislation and has a unique set of concerns about it, reflecting the interests of her state. She answers our questions by video.
Coal River Mountain protests spread across the nation 1
Posted 1 month ago As millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain communities, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins, die-ins, protests, and a haunting "Day of the Dead" funeral procession and sit-in in the courtyard of the headquarters of the EPA.
Polluted Southern communities ask EPA to address environmental injustice 0
Posted 1 month ago Environmental justice leaders representing more than a dozen polluted communities from six Southern states met with Environmental Protection Agency leaders this week and asked them to take action to better protect the health of low-income communities and communities of color.
It begins...

The big stories out of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer 3
Posted 1 month ago Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee -- the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill -- didn't contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable.
Obama launches climate push with December goal 0
Posted 1 month ago U.S. President Barack Obama's Senate allies launched a major push Tuesday behind sweeping legislation to battle climate change, with time running short before a high-stakes global summit in December.
Boxer releases chairman’s mark, EPA releases economic analysis 0
Posted 1 month ago The main difference between the Chairman's Mark and the draft of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act released late last month is that it “specifies distribution of emissions allowances.” The allowance allocations are similar to the house bill but not identical, but the bottom line is the same -- “Ensures that the majority of investments in the bill are for consumer protection.”
A FARMER SPEAKS

Bee here, now: organic apiary in a chemical world 6
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Beekeeping is rising in popularity--from urban rooftops to backyard hives, the world is abuzz with interest in homegrown honey. Pioneering beekeeper Ross Conrad delivers the bitter and the sweet news about organic honey. His words might just give you hives.
Historic game changer

Will EPA veto or regulate the plunder of Appalachia? 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago In a historic move, Lisa Jackson's EPA threw down the gauntlet on mountaintop removal mining last Friday -- after they had just compromised on another massively destructive mountaintop removal operation.
Will Manchin Defend Coalfield Residents or Absentee Big Coal?

Coalfield uprising leads to arrests at W.Va. gov’s office 6
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago As a supportive crowd sang, "This land is your land, this land is my land," seven peaceful sit-in activists were arrested in Governor Joe Manchin's office at the West Virginia state capitol Monday evening. The act of civil disobedience was made in protest of current mountaintop removal coal mining practices.
Shout Shout, Let It All Out

Mountaintop Removal Hearings Get Tense 2
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Shoutin' Down the Army Corps Hearing on Mountaintop Removal

Should the Department of Justice investigate Big Coal bedlam? 1
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago While their profits continue to soar amid job losses, Big Coal let loose the hounds of chaos and hatred at last night's Army Corps of Engineers public hearing in West Virginia on mountaintop removal permits.