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Who's the meanest of them all? Vote for the most villainous eco-villain of 2007	Grist	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Check out our nominations for the most reprehensible eco-villain of 2007, then vote at the bottom of this post. (And tell us who we missed.) George W. Bush. You've heard of him, right? Pete Domenici. Sen. Domenici, top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, played a key role in neutering the just-signed energy bill, pushing successfully to remove a provision that would have required utilities to produce 15 percent of their electricity from renewable sources -- ...
Topics: jackassery, politics (all these topics)

EPA: Nay U.S. EPA won't let California enact vehicle greenhouse-gas limits		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 ...
Topics: California, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Stan, Stan, He's Not Our Man Nominee for federal fossil-energy secretary has strong ties to Big Coal		17 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 5:18 PM on 17 Dec 2007 From 2001 to 2003, Stanley Suboleski was chief operating officer of mining company Massey Energy, which faces $2.4 billion in fines for more than 4,000 alleged Clean Water Act violations at its coal operations in West Virginia and Kentucky within the past six years. It's only logical, then, that President Bush would nominate Suboleski, who is still an independent ...
Topics: coal, Department of Energy, energy, jackassery, news, politics (all these topics)

A Thorn in Our Sulfide U.S. EPA considers regulating hydrogen sulfide, industry not into the idea		11 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:29 PM on 11 Dec 2007 It may be shocking to learn that a gas with the odor of rotten eggs is actually not good for you, but sure enough: the U.S. EPA is considering regulating hydrogen sulfide, a nasty-smelling gas that emanates from oil refineries, paper mills, landfills, CAFOs, and any other place where organic material containing sulfur decomposes. Hydrogen sulfide is known to be dead ...
Topics: air pollution, health, jackassery, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Big balls, bigger wall Chertoff lies, wildlife dies	Glenn Hurowitz	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday that he's going to just waive the Endangered Species Act, the Toxic Waste Disposal Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (among many others) in order to plough ahead with building a wall along the Arizona-Mexico border in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. He repeated his rationale that the wall could be good for the environment because migrants ...
Topics: endangered species, international politics, jackassery, legislation, Mexico, national security, politics, Texas, wilderness (all these topics)

Quote of the day	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.' -- CNN and syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, on the wildfires that have raged across San Diego county, killing at least one person, injuring four firefighters, scorching 100,000 acres, and driving 250,000 people from their homes.
Topics: jackassery, quotables (all these topics)

Sludging Along U.S. agencies don't prioritize public in toxin-affected communities		28 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:27 AM on 28 Sep 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy found high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide in the soil of suburban Versailles, Pa., and has neglected to inform local officials. The U.S. EPA was lackadaisical about cleaning up toxic paint sludge left by automaker Ford in Trenton, N.J., and disregarded complaints from the community. Luckily, those failures of the U.S. government to protect and infor ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, jackassery, New Jersey, news, Pennsylvania, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Quote of the day White House advisor reveals Bush view of climate change policy	David Roberts	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
White House science advisor, on the options available for addressing climate change: You only have two choices; you either have advanced technologies and get them into the marketplace, or you shut down your economies and put people out of work. Remind me again how long until these clowns are gone?
Topics: climate, jackassery, politics, quotables (all these topics)

If Not Dow, When? Dow Chemical evades legal responsibility for chemical spill in India		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 10 Sep 2007 In 1984, thousands of people in Bhopal, India, were killed by the effects of a cyanide leak from a U.S.-owned pesticide plant. The plant owner, Union Carbide Corp., was bought by Dow Chemical in 2001; since then, Dow has evaded responsibility for cleaning up the more than 9,000 tons of chemicals still affecting soil and water near the site. The company has now offered to pay p ...
Topics: India, jackassery, news, toxics (all these topics)

We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Potentially deadly uranium spill in Tennessee kept secret		21 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
We Put the Unclear in Nuclear Potentially deadly uranium spill in Tennessee kept secret As part of its model for a newer, more relevant form of democracy in the 21st century, the U.S. government in 2004 clamped down on the public's access to information on all things nuclear, for so-called national-security reasons. Hidden in the big ol' nuclear hidey-hole: news of a leak of highly enriched uranium at a nuclear ...
Topics: jackassery, news, nuclear power, Tennessee (all these topics)

Glenn Beck is an ass And he argues that cow farts produce more greenhouse gases than cars	Adam Browning	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Check out this clip (via RAN) of the insufferable Glenn Beck running through asinine talking points while disparaging Live Earth: I'm not the first to note this, but it is really remarkable that CNN, a formerly respected former news network, stoops to this egregious low. Mike Brune of the Rainforest Action Network does an admirable job of keeping his dignity, not committing any felonies no matter how justified, and calling him on his bull. If, in the unlik ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery (all these topics)

Remember when people cared what Marc Morano said? Good times	David Roberts	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Good times. He must miss them. Apparently he's given up entirely and just started posting gibberish.(h/t reader MR) Update [2007-7-20 8:5:14 by David Roberts]: Seems they've taken the gibberish down. Or rather, they've taken that specific piece of gibberish down. Gibberish like this lingers on.
Topics: jackassery (all these topics)

Also, people who sell deodorant will make more money Thanks for the observation, Washington Post	Kate Sheppard	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Today's 'I'm a journalist and I'm objective, here let me prove it to you!' gem of the day, nestled in an otherwise relevant and interesting Washington Post article on the costs of climate change: Some have argued that the effects of global warming will be positive as well as negative, and Frumhoff acknowledged that there would be some winners in a warmer Northeast. Farmers, for instance, would have a longer growing season, and residents in more northern areas might ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, green living, jackassery (all these topics)

Memo to Google: Coal is not green Find a new source of power, dudes	Joseph Romm	26 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Google got a lot of great press for its new plan to "voluntarily cut or offset all its greenhouse emissions by the end of the year." But was it all deserved? The Boston Globe reported the story as "Google aims to go carbon-neutral by end 2007. " The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) reprinted the story, as did Greenwire and others. Buried in the story was this gem: Separately, Google is planning to spend $600 million t ...
Topics: business, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, greenwashing, jackassery (all these topics)

Grist D.C. reader party: Thanks for the memories A good time was had by all	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
It's been over a week ago now, but memories of Grist's D.C. reader party linger on like the stain on my boss Chip's shirt from where I knocked his "causemo" all over him at the very beginning of the night, in front of several members of our board of directors. (See: How to Get Ahead at Work, p. 245) The grace and good humor with which he, um, failed to fire me on the spot were characteristic of the evening: lots of very smart, very charming people. Drinking ...
Topics: jackassery, shameless self-promotion, Washington DC (all these topics)

Sprawl's well that ends well Conservatives wage war against smart growth	Kate Sheppard	12 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Who doesn't love placemaking? Well, a growing band of conservatives who are getting all bent out of shape about the smart-growth movement. They're getting so worked up about it that the Heritage Foundation even pulled together an event on the subject featuring public policy consultant Wendell Cox (best known for fighting public transit and promoting America's highway system) and Ron Utt (the guy who lead Reagan's privatization efforts). The title of the summit: 'Wa ...
Topics: jackassery, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

More Colbert on Griffin	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You can see part one here. Here's part two:
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, funnies, jackassery (all these topics)

An enemy of my enemy ... Conservatives like Bush's climate plan because greens don't	David Roberts	05 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The conservative National Review likes the president's new climate change strategy. Not because it will work to reduce emissions, mind you. Because it irritates environmentalists and Europeans.
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Brooks and Shields act out the bankruptcy of elite Beltway opinion Watch at your own risk	David Roberts	02 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I was going to wrap this into a previous post, but this kind of spectacular cluelessness deserves its time in the spotlight. Watch two mandarins of Beltway "moderation," Mark Shields and David Brooks, discuss Bush's "new" climate strategy: Astounding. You really could not ask for a more crystalline example of the intellectual tics that have come to substitute for thought among the D.C. media chattering class. A couple of things to note. The f ...
Topics: climate, George Bush, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

We got TRASHed, and angry The Girls of Grist do Sasquatch	Kate Sheppard	29 May 2007	Gristmill
A group of Grist hotties ladies just returned from the Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge in George, Wash., where we spent two days volunteering at the TRASHed Recycling Store, sponsored by Global Inheritance, a hip nonprofit based in California that combines creativity, youthful enthusiasm, and activism into unique, progressive-minded projects. They travel around and do activisty things at different events that the yoot flock to, like Coachella, the X Games, and S ...
Topics: carbon offsets, green living, jackassery, music (all these topics)

Gore watch The media continues to prove his new book right	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
As I mentioned the other day, there's a certain irony to the fact that Al Gore is out touring behind a book about the decline of reasoned public dialogue, since his emergence on the public scene inevitably elicits paroxysms of the shallowest, bitchiest, most vacuous commentary of which our punditariat is capable -- and that's saying something. Today brings examples so telling they hurt. I mean literally hurt. You've been warned. Start with this dazzlingly obtuse co ...
Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, green living, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

My one and only post on the Rachel Carson nonsense I shall speak now and then forever hold my peace	David Roberts	24 May 2007	Gristmill
So, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) planned to introduce a bill to honor Rachel Carson -- author of the seminal Silent Spring -- on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Carson is, as non-psychotics know, a hero who did about as much as any human being in history to raise awareness, not only of toxic chemicals in the environment, but of our symbiotic and delicate relationship to the ecosystems we inhabit. Cardin has since decided not to introduce the bill. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-O ...
Topics: jackassery, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Post of the day: Crichton's fictions More debunkery of everyone's favorite fiction writer	Joseph Romm	23 May 2007	Gristmill
While Planet Gore now has the market cornered on entertaining global warming disinformation, Michael Crichton perfected it. For those last two or three people who still think the technothriller writer has his facts straight, check out reasic's terrific post on Crichton's inane 2003 talk, "Aliens Cause Global Warming." Yes, Crichton, a real medical doctor, actually said: Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're asked to ...
Topics: climate, climate change skepticism, jackassery (all these topics)

Yowza Drilling for oil is good for climate change -- see how!	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) explains why drilling in the Arctic Refuge will help us fight climate change: Won't drilling for more oil make global warming worse? What some might perceive as the contradiction in further drilling, when we take into account the mean estimate of what we take from ANWR, it will be the equivalent of what we have seen from Prudhoe Bay, which has produced 20 percent of this country's oil [production]. If we could tap into a source that c ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, jackassery, oil, US Senate (all these topics)

'We don't believe targets and timetables are important' U.S. continues to resist pressure on climate change	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill
If I may indulge for a moment in some blogospheric vitriol and vulgarity ... I really can't wait 'til these aholes are gone: The United States will fight climate change by funding clean energy technologies and will continue to reject emissions targets or cap and trade schemes, its chief climate negotiator Harlan Watson said on Thursday. ... 'We don't believe targets and timetables are important, or a global cap and trade system,' Watson told Reuters, speakin ...**
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, international politics, jackassery, politics (all these topics)

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