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Posted December 31, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, carcinogens, formaldehyde, IRIS, riders, righttoknow, styrene, takeouttoxics, toxic
In which a group of Senators pen fact-challenged letters on behalf of formaldehyde and styrene, currying favor with the chemical industry and undercutting government health agencies. In my last post, I discussed how EPA was compelled by the collaboration of...continued→
Posted December 28, 2011 by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- cancer, carcinogens, formaldehyde, riders, takeouttoxics, toxicchemicals
The chemical industry’s war on science continues -- as far out of the public eye as possible. Shortly before Congress left for its Christmas recess, it passed an “Omnibus” budget bill, to appropriate funds for numerous federal agencies for the...continued→
Posted December 27, 2011 by David Goldstein in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
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- bipartisanship, bipartisansolutions, economicrecovery, energyefficiency, energypolicy, housing, jobcreation, jobs
Recent economic news is not encouraging. The New York Times reports that when it comes to recovery, “experts see a false dawn.” One particularly troubling area is housing, where a new report shows home sales were 4 percent lower this...continued→
Posted December 23, 2011 by Rachel Fried in Health and the Environment, Moving Beyond Oil, Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, U.S. Law and Policy
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- budget, dirtyfuels, keystonexl, millennials, oil, pipeline, policyriders, politics, riders, tax
Believe it or not, it was a horse race that solidified my understanding of the inner workings of the United States government. As my American Politics professor once explained, horse race coverage refers to our penchant for covering politics as...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- anti-environmentalriders, carbonpollution, cleanairact, cleancars, EPA, Obama, powerplants, RalphFabri, riders, Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has posted some unusual portraits of jolly Saint Nick and asked readers to vote for the Scariest Santa. Here’s my choice: Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art It’s a 1939 Christmas card from a Hungarian-born American artist named...continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Deron Lovaas in Moving Beyond Oil, U.S. Law and Policy
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- American Jobs Act, biking, bridge, bus, cars, congress, driving, economy, energy, fuel economy, highways, infrastructure, labor, legislation, maintenance, Obama, oil dependence, pollution, public transportation, rail, repair, roads, Romney, traffic, transportation, walking
Last week in New Hampshire, and this week in South Carolina, Mitt Romney fielded questions about our deteriorating infrastructure. This is an important environmental issue, since potholes and traffic don’t mix well. Consequently, you get more congestion on our roads....continued→
Posted December 22, 2011 by Andrew Wetzler in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places, U.S. Law and Policy
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- biogems, delisting, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, midwest, wolf, wolves
Yesterday was a good day for wolves and for national wolf conservation policy. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was removing gray wolf populations in the upper Midwest from the federal list of endangered and threatened...continued→
Posted December 21, 2011 by Elly Pepper in Saving Wildlife and WIld Places, U.S. Law and Policy
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- appropriations, approps2012, biogems, endangeredspecies, rideres, wolves
As the House and Senate appropriators reached a $1 trillion federal spending agreement for 2012 last Thursday, we were thrilled to hear that the bill would NOT harm wolves! As I wrote early last week, we had heard that a...continued→
Posted December 20, 2011 by Laurie Johnson in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
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- airpollution, boiler, boilerrule, boilers, boilerstandard, caa, CIBO, cleanairact, CRS, debunk, dri, economicanalysis, economicimpacts, economics, epa, EPA, globalinsight, greeneconomy, greenjobs, health, ihs, jobs, MACT, models, rebuttal, toxics, wefa
As part of their ongoing jobs-scare campaign to block public health standards (and protect their bottom line), the Council of Industrial Boilers (CIBO) just rehashed its discredited 2010 economic “study” (click here for a summary of critiques by myself, the...continued→
Posted December 20, 2011 by Max Baumhefner in Curbing Pollution, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
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- electric, electricvehicles, ev, gas, gasprices, hybrid, plug-in, plug-inhybrid
The California Air Resources Board acted decisively Friday to improve the economics of a decision to drive on electricity. The Board unanimously adopted amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (“LCFS”), one of the state’s most important measures to reduce...continued→
