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EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade 6
Posted 20 hours, 9 minutes 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 2 days, 18 hours 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 days, 19 hours ago
Senators opposed to Clean Energy Jobs Act are ignoring bill’s benefits to Americans—Part 1 2
Posted 3 days, 22 hours 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 4 days, 19 hours 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 week 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 week, 1 day 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 week, 1 day 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 week, 3 days 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 week, 4 days 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 week, 4 days 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 2 weeks, 3 days 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 2 weeks, 4 days 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 2 weeks, 4 days 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 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Shoutin' Down the Army Corps Hearing on Mountaintop Removal

Should the Department of Justice investigate Big Coal bedlam? 1
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days 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.
Boxer’s committee will start Senate climate-bill hearings on Oct. 27 1
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago A key U.S. Senate panel will take up sweeping legislation to battle global warming starting Oct. 27, weeks before December global climate talks in Copenhagen, the panel's chairwoman announced Tuesday.
AEI compares EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Clint Eastwood 0
Posted 1 month ago Let me get this straight, the right-wing is now saying it’s bad to be like Clint, the quintessential tough guy hero lionized by conservatives because he’ll do whatever is needed to save human life?
Rule will require use of best technologies to reduce greenhouse gases from large facilities when “constructed or significantly modified” — small businesses and farms exempt

New EPA Rule Requirements 0
Posted 1 month ago
Loo and Behold

As Philadelphia goes, so goes the nation 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago The City of Brotherly Love has sent the EPA a $1.6 billion proposal for using green roofs, rain barrels, and other eco-tools to prevent the sewage overflow that results from big storms. Will the feds let Philly go with the flow?