Posted by John Walke
It’s that time of the month – for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to issue yet another decision overturning a Bush EPA rule for violating the plain language of the Clean Air Act. Yesterday’s decision in Sierra...
Posted by John Walke
Does President Bush, powerfully astride a proverbial aircraft carrier rocking on the ocean's perspiring surface undulating like waves, survey the nation’s hoary horizon of power plants erect like smokestacks, not misunderestimating the dirty deed he did for these dischargers, and...
Posted by John Walke
In late May, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied EPA and utility industry requests to rehear the original court panel’s unanimous decision overturning EPA’s so-called Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) for power plants. I said at...
Posted by John Walke
I usually don’t bother responding to utility lobbyists’ air pollution talking points. Much less re-publish their propaganda, thereby adding to the abuse of reason, facts, and good sense in the world today.But I’m making an exception today, because the latest talking...
Posted by John Walke
Imagine that you’re taking your young son or daughter on a weekend camping trip that you both have been planning and looking forward to for the past year. Your car is all packed the night before and you’re planning to...
Posted by John Walke
And now the story can be told of the Bush administration's 8 year long agenda for air pollution from power plants.Once upon a time, to be exact in the year 2000, then-Governor Bush ran for the office of the Presidency...
Posted by John Walke
I testified this morning before the clean air subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at a hearing about the D.C. Circuit's July 11th decision overturning EPA's "Clean Air Interstate Rule."This is the second in a series...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”– Hamlet Act 3, scene 2, 230. On Friday July 11th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the Bush administration’s signature air quality accomplishment, the “Clean Air Interstate Rule.” CAIR...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
This week a state court judge in Georgia issued the first court ruling in the country concluding that power plant developers and state regulators must establish permit limits for CO2 pollution from new coal-fired power plants, based upon "best available control...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The Clean Air Act reserves to "the judgment of the [EPA] Administrator" alone, as a matter of law, the revision of the secondary “public welfare” standard for ozone and other air pollution. This legal standard must be based on what...
Posted by John Walke
The AP's Joe Hebert has written a powerful article on a scandal emerging from EPA in the wake of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously overturning EPA's mercury rules for power plants. The AP article appeared...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
On February 8th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with NRDC and a coalition of public health groups, tribes, and states, ruling that EPA had illegally evaded the protective Clean Air Act safeguards requiring deep and timely...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution
So it's not often that you can just quote EPA's own media spin to see the self-evident absurdity of their latest attack on the environment, but here goes: "A recent analysis by EPA on the risks from air toxics emitted...
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution
The Washington Post has a fascinating four-part series examining the role of Vice President Cheney in the Bush administration. The final article, Leaving No Tracks, explores several high-profile environmental controversies during this administration in which the Vice President personally intervened.One...
