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Cheney reaction
Ex-EPA official details White House interference on climate action |
Kate Sheppard |
08 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In a letter [PDF] made public today, former deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett indicates that both the Office of the Vice President and the Council on Environmental Quality have attempted to censor discussion of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. Burnett, who went public about the administration's obstruction after leaving the EPA in early June, detailed the interference in a letter to Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara B ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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White-Out House
White House tries to keep EPA from showing how greenhouse gases could be regulated |
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30 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:29 PM on 30 Jun 2008 The White House is trying to block the U.S. EPA from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, reports The Wall Street Journal. The draft document, a formal response to a Supreme Court decision that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can thus be regulated under the Clean Air Act, must be OK'd by the White Hou ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, White House (all these topics) |
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For Specious Skies
EPA plans to loosen air-quality rules near national parks |
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16 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 11:45 AM on 16 May 2008 Photo: Wolfgang Staudt Call us crazy, but rewriting the Clean Air Act to ease the way for new coal plants near national parks seems to fly in the face of that whole "clean air" thing. But sure enough, the U.S. EPA plans to make a change allowing the government to calculate the average annual emissions of power plants near parks and wilderness areas, instead of tracking (and po ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, jackassery, national parks, news, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics) |
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'At the pleasure of the president'
Who's looking into the circumstances of the Gade firing? |
Kate Sheppard |
02 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| After yesterday's news about the ouster of Mary Gade from the head of the EPA's Midwest office, the next question is who, if anyone, is looking into whether her firing came at the behest of Dow Chemical and the White House. According to EPA spokesperson Jonathan Shradar, no internal investigation into the circumstances of Gade's dismissal is planned. 'This is a role that serves at the pleasure of the administration, and [EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson] makes the ... |
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| Topics: jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Bush Whacked
President Bush interfered to weaken U.S. ozone standards |
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14 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:39 AM on 14 Mar 2008 President Bush interfered at the last minute to weaken the recently announced U.S. ozone standards, according to EPA documents. On Wednesday, the EPA set both the "public health" standard (how much ozone is in one place at one time) and the "public welfare" standard (consideration of the long-term effect of ozone) at the same level. Before Bush interfered, the agency planne ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, George Bush, health, jackassery, news, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Not Everyone Can Be a Decider
Timing of EPA decision on vehicle greenhouse-gas regulation still a mystery |
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05 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:18 AM on 05 Mar 2008 When will the U.S. EPA decide whether to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions? EPA head Stephen Johnson testified in the Senate Tuesday that he just couldn't say, even though it's been nearly a year since the agency was directed by the Supreme Court to make that decision. When asked whether any EPA staffers were currently working on the issue, Johnson s ... |
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| Topics: climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, regulation, US EPA, US Senate (all these topics) |
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Leavin' Stephen
EPA unions withdraw from cooperation agreement |
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04 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:37 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Union local presidents representing the vast majority of U.S. EPA employees have withdrawn from a cooperation agreement with their Bush-appointed supervisors, claiming "abuses of our good nature and trust." In a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, the unionized workers wrote that he retaliates against whistleblowers and ignores principles of scientific integrity "whenever poli ... |
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| Topics: jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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State of Denial
EPA staff supported California auto-emissions waiver, documents show |
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24 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:48 AM on 24 Jan 2008 As suspected, U.S. EPA employees last year told agency Administrator Stephen Johnson that California had "compelling and extraordinary conditions" that would justify a federal waiver allowing the state to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos, according to EPA documents reviewed by Senate staffers this week. Nonetheless, Johnson denied the state that waiver in Dec ... |
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| Topics: jackassery, news, politics, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Paper Travail
EPA provides only some documents related to California waiver |
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22 Jan 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:17 AM on 22 Jan 2008 The U.S. EPA has given Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) only some documents related to the agency's refusal to allow California to regulate car greenhouse-gas emissions -- not all, as she had asked. Missing or redacted documents include a presentation said to predict that EPA would lose if sued over its recalcitrance (which, of course, it has been). Citing executive privilege, the EPA explained in ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, California, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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EPA: Nay
U.S. EPA won't let California enact vehicle greenhouse-gas limits |
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19 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 3:54 PM on 19 Dec 2007 The U.S. EPA has denied California the waiver it needed to enact a state law requiring a 30 percent reduction in vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions by 2016. Said EPA chief Stephen Johnson, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution -- not a confusing patchwork of state rules -- to reduce America's climate footprint from vehicles." But that decision w ... |
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| Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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