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What explains the Bush administration's air pollution agenda for power plants?

August 15, 2008

Posted by John Walke

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airpollution, bulwer-lytton, bushadministration, powerplants

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...continued

Bush Environmental Era: Like a Kidney Stone, This Too Shall Pass

July 15, 2008

Posted by John Walke in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

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bushadministration, globalwarming, kidneystones

But not without considerable harm to the body politic, public health and the environment, with 6 long months left for that painful passage.Turns out there is another connection between kidney stones and Bush administration environmental policies. Global warming -- about...continued

Science Decider in Chief

March 17, 2008

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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bushadministration, cleanairact, environmentallaw, EPA, ozone, ozonestandard, presidentbush, science

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...continued

John Walke
John Walke
Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney
Washington, D.C.
As a senior attorney and the Director of NRDC's Clean Air Program, I work on...
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