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Is It Graduation Yet?
Bush admin gets senior-itis, says it won't decide on emissions before term ends |
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11 Jul 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 7:32 AM on 11 Jul 2008 EPA head Stephen Johnson. Photo: epa.gov Instead of deciding whether greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human health and welfare and formulating standards to reduce them -- as the Supreme Court ordered -- the EPA will run out the clock for the next few months soliciting more public comment. The Supreme Court ordered the EPA last year to decide on the GHG-endanger ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Dally Affirmation
Appeals court won't force EPA to speed up CO2 decision |
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27 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:08 AM on 27 Jun 2008 A federal appeals court has decided not to force the Bush administration to speed up its decision on whether carbon dioxide emissions endanger public health or welfare. The administration's decision on CO2 is a necessary step in the process of regulating U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollu ... |
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| Topics: climate, litigation, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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It's My Party, I Can Write If I Want to
Former EPA Chief to Call for Moderation in New Book |
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29 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| It's My Party, I Can Write If I Want to Former EPA Chief to Call for Moderation in New Book Christie Whitman, who seemed none too happy during her conflict-laden stint as head of the U.S. EPA, has found a new vocation: author. Whitman has struck a deal with the Penguin Group to publish a book that will call for political moderation instead of hard-line stands. Presumably, she knows whereof she writes: Whitman ran ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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In the Hot Seat
States Sue Federal Government Over Climate Change |
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24 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| In the Hot Seat States Sue Federal Government Over Climate Change Responding to a U.S. EPA decision earlier this summer that the agency does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide from vehicles and power plants, 12 states filed suit against the federal government yesterday to force the Bush administration to do something about global climate change. The suit alleges that the EPA is ignoring federal stud ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Dear Christie ... 10 Reasons to Stay the Course
In a confidential memo, President Bush tells EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman what's on his mind |
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09 Apr 2001 |
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| Christie -- Heard they hammered you in Montreal about the Kyoto thing. Don't let it get you down, Whitman! They're foreigners, these people, and foreigners feed on confrontation. It's cultural. Did you see that recent French or German movie, in black and white? Cultural. Good of you to leave the conference early. I ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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