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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Enviros weigh in on financial bailout Friends of the Earth says anti-regulation approach causes environmental destruction	Kate Sheppard	22 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Friends of the Earth issued a statement today arguing against the Bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of the troubled U.S. financial system. 'This financial crisis has exposed the right wing's anti-regulation philosophy as an abject failure,' said Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder. 'This hands-off approach to managing the economy has resulted in greedy corporate titans getting rich on the backs of working people. This same philosop ...
Topics: Wall Street, business, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, economy, politics, Muckraker (all these topics)

Opening another door? As GM announces plant closings, Obama touts green jobs	Kate Sheppard	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
General Motors Corp. announced this morning that it is closing its Janesville, Wis., assembly plant, which produces SUVs and pickup trucks, along with three other North American plants that churn out gas-guzzlers. CEO Rick Wagoner says it's because the company is moving toward more fuel-efficient vehicles, as fewer Americans are buying big automobiles these days. The Janesville plant will be ending production of medium-duty trucks by the end of 2009, and bigger truc ...
Topics: Barack Obama, Big Auto, business, cars, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Let's Call the Coal Thing Off Coal-bashing is hot new trend in Congress, science circles, and business world	Amanda Griscom Little	09 Mar 2007	Muckraker
Is King Coal about to be deposed? Climate scientists, key members of Congress, enviros, and the progressive wing of the business world are plotting a coup d'état. Regime change isn't likely to come soon, but this resistance movement could significantly alter the way the pollution-spewing sovereign wields its power. James Hansen. Photo: Arnold Adle/N ...
Topics: business, climate science, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, James Hansen, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Tip Tip Hurray! Senate bills and corporate coalition push Washington toward climate action	Amanda Griscom Little	23 Jan 2007	Muckraker
Will January 2007 prove to be a tipping point for U.S. climate-change policy? Already this month we've seen a barrage of high-profile activity -- and President Bush hasn't even given his State of the Union address yet. Are we at a tipping point? First there was a rapid-fire succession of four major climate-change bills proposed in the Senate, all of which call for mand ...
Topics: business, climate, greenish companies, legislation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Cap of Good Hope Biggest energy companies in U.S. call for caps on carbon emissions	Amanda Griscom Little	06 Apr 2006	Muckraker
Tuesday saw a tectonic shift in the climate-change debate during an all-day Senate conference on global-warming policy. A group of high-powered energy and utility executives for the first time issued this directive to Washington: Bring on the carbon caps! The Energy and Natural Resources Committee heard statements from leaders representing eight big energy companies, inc ...
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Corn at the Right Time Ethanol is suddenly all the rage in D.C. and Detroit	Amanda Griscom Little	24 Feb 2006	Muckraker
It's as befuddling to see the "Live Green, Go Yellow" slogan splashed across the General Motors ads running throughout the Olympics as it was to hear the term "switchgrass" uttered by President Bush in his State of the Union speech last month. Here we have GM and Dubya, two of the world's most entrenched and heavy-hitting advocates of fossil-fuel consumption, sudde ...
Topics: business, energy, ethanol, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Foreign Predations Foreign corporations spend big to influence U.S. environmental law	Amanda Griscom Little	03 Jun 2005	Muckraker
Cold, hard, foreign cash. Lobbying has become as much a part of American culture as apple pie, blue jeans, and monster trucks, but it's not just U.S. companies playing the game. Increasingly, foreign corporations are spending big bucks to push their interests in Washington, D.C., many with the intent of weakening environmental protections -- from changing rules on the dispos ...
Topics: business, lobbying, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

It Was Just My Ecomagination GE kicks off ambitious green initiative	Amanda Griscom Little	10 May 2005	Muckraker
Last night, General Electric Chair and CEO Jeffrey Immelt canoodled with Congress members and industry top brass at a swish cocktail party on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., celebrating the launch of "ecomagination," an initiative he announced earlier in the day to ramp up development of clean technologies and lighten the company's Goliath-like environmental footprint. GE's ...
Topics: business, coal, energy, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Giuliani-Come-Lately Giuliani joins law firm renowned for defending energy interests	Amanda Griscom Little	08 Apr 2005	Muckraker
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- whose name is often bandied about as a possible 2008 GOP presidential contender -- added a splash of deep red to his moderate-Republican profile when he announced last week his decision to join a Texas-based law firm known for representing heavy-hitting energy companies. Rudy Giuliani. Photo: NYC.gov. Enron, ChevronTexaco, Pacific G ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, Muckraker, New York, politics, Rudy Giuliani (all these topics)

Porkic Victory Pork-laden corporate tax bill socks it to the environment	Amanda Griscom Little	18 Oct 2004	Muckraker
Oink, oink. The monstrous corporate tax legislation that recently sailed through Congress -- passing in the Senate 69-17 last Monday, only days after it passed in the House -- has given the environmental community a terrible case of Coulda-Been-Worse Syndrome. "We're well aware that this bill reflects the kind of sausage-making, vote-building, pigs-at-the-trough mentality that C ...
Topics: air pollution, business, energy, legislation, Muckraker, oil, politics, waste (all these topics)

True Colors, Shining Through Schwarzenegger at an environmental crossroads	Amanda Griscom	09 Sep 2004	Muckraker
Arnold Schwarzenegger's exuberant speech last Tuesday at the Republican National Convention suggested that the Governator may be less the moderate Republican than advertised. Hailed by some during the convention as the Obama of the right, the California governor came across as a devout, rock-ribbed Bush lover. Just days after Schwarzenegger's speech, more evidence emerged to indicate that thi ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, business, California, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Public Nuisance No. 1 A bold lawsuit may have utilities reconsidering their fight against regs	Amanda Griscom	30 Jul 2004	Muckraker
A coal-fired power plant. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey. It may have sounded like the understatement of the year when a lawsuit was filed last week against five major U.S. energy companies, alleged to be among the biggest global-warming culprits in the nation, on the legal grounds that they're causing a "public nuisance." In reality it may have been one of the ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, litigation, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Premature Ululation Reports of pending EPA enforcement actions are, shall we say, premature	Amanda Griscom	20 Jul 2004	Muckraker
Is this power plant in trouble? Nah. Photo: USGS. What's this on the wires? The U.S. EPA is gearing up to prosecute a new batch of new-source review (NSR) cases against polluting power plants? Could it be that the Bushies have suddenly taken a keen interest in enforcing a Clean Air Act rule that they have gone to great lengths to weaken? Not really. The story goes like ...
Topics: air pollution, business, litigation, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Fowl Play Factory farms get off easy on air pollution	Amanda Griscom	19 May 2004	Muckraker
What do the National Chicken Council, the National Turkey Federation, United Egg Producers, and Tyson Foods have in common? Crying fowl. Photo: USDA. Well, first there's the obvious fowl connection. Then there's the foul connection: Their facilities, known as "concentrated animal feeding operations" (CAFOs), have growing air-pollution problems thanks to the mountains of gas-emitting excrement deposited ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, business, food, health, industrial ag, Muckraker, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Involuntarism Study finds mandatory caps work better than voluntary programs to limit pollution	Amanda Griscom	21 Apr 2004	Muckraker
Smokestacking the deck? Photo: USGS. This just in, from the Department of Near-Tautologies: Mandatory emissions caps rein in power-plant pollution more effectively than voluntary programs. That's the conclusion being drawn from a report on the environmental records of the 100 largest electricity companies in the U.S., released last week by an alliance of bottom-liners ...
Topics: air pollution, business, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Spin Cycle Industry flacks learn how to snooker the public with their not-so-eco-friendly messages	Amanda Griscom	21 Jan 2004	Muckraker
This morning, some 50 people powwowed in the chandeliered Ticonderoga conference room of the Hyatt Regency hotel on Capitol Hill for a conference entitled "Environmental Issues 2004: How to Get Results in an Election Year." There weren't more than a handful of environmentalists in attendance -- perhaps because the conference was hosted by the National Associa ...
Topics: business, climate, energy, environmental non-government organizations, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

The Rollback Machine Keeping tabs on the Bush administration's environmental record	Amanda Griscom	04 Sep 2003	Muckraker
Just after George W. Bush took office, two memos circulated among his top administrators that set the stage for what the president, during his campaign, promoted as a new era of environmental policy. On Bush's first day in office, January 20, 2001, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card sent a memo to all cabinet members directing them to ice more than 50 regulations (many of them se ...
Topics: business, Muckraker, politics (all these topics)

Bhopal -- or RuPaul	Ben White	02 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Friday marks the 15th anniversary of a very unhappy occasion. On Dec. 3, 1984, a Union Carbide industrial plant in Bhopal, India, released a deadly cloud of the gas methyl isocyanate into the air, killing at least 6,500 people (and some say more) and injuring tens of thousands. Ever since, Union Carbide and Bhopal have been inextricably linked. But those who may not know a great deal about what happened in India won't find any enlightenment at Uni ...
Topics: air pollution, business, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, Muckraker, politics, toxics (all these topics)

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