From the SF Chronicle:
“Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous pollutant – a move that could help propel slow-moving climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental … [Keep reading >>]
Yep. The EPA has a most wanted list. And for good reason. Mr. Morgan, above?
The former chairman and CEO of Hydromet Environmental, a Canadian hazardous waste reclamation … [Keep reading >>]
“The Obama administration proposed sharp reductions Tuesday in airborne pollution from America’s 99 cement plants, including first-ever limits on mercury from older kilns.
“The rules also would lead to steep cuts … [Keep reading >>]
Damn! I’m so glad. I’m so glad. I’m glad, I’m glad, I’m glad. The new EPA under the new Administrator, Lisa Jackson, appointed by the new president, … [Keep reading >>]
“Carol Browner, special adviser to the president on climate change and energy, said in an interview Sunday that the EPA is looking at a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that requires … [Keep reading >>]
From AP: “President Barack Obama opened an ambitious, double-barreled assault on global warming and U.S. energy woes Monday, moving quickly toward rules requiring cleaner-running cars that guzzle less gas … [Keep reading >>]
A friend, who has long suffered in the Bush Administration EPA, sends this letter from Lisa Jackson, his likely new boss — with great happiness.
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From John Broder at NY Times
Update: Obama’s pick, Nobel physics laureate Steven Chu, has been a strong advocate for using less energy to counter the effects of global … [Keep reading >>]
Hallelujah!
“The Bush administration said Wednesday that it was abandoning its pursuit of two proposed regulations relaxing air-pollution standards for power plants, surprising both industry and environmentalists by ending its pursuit … [Keep reading >>]
“Jackson to get EPA gig?
Lisa Jackson, the outgoing commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection and a co-chair of Barack Obama’s environmental transition team, looks increasingly likely to take … [Keep reading >>]
“Few federal agencies are expected to undergo as radical a transformation under President-elect Barack Obama as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, which have been at the epicenter … [Keep reading >>]
From Congressman Edward J. Markey’s Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming:
Executive summary
I. President Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff Joel Kaplan and numerous heads of cabinet agencies and White … [Keep reading >>]
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Tom Paine
---"Dissertations on First Principles of Government," 1795
Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by Max Blumenthal.
