Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment
This week was a time to celebrate the promise of cleaner air. EPA took the first steps toward righting numerous air pollution wrongs committed by the Bush administration. Administrator Lisa Jackson announced the reconsideration of three harmful air pollution rules --...continued→
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
"Surely you must be joking." -- Ted Striker, Airplane I knew the Bush administration's midnight environmental regulations were bad. Rushed, sloppy, deregulatory favors to polluters, illegal. All of that. But my latest favorite falls into the "Surely you must be joking"...continued→
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
"'Wake up, Alice dear!' said her sister; 'Why, what a long sleep you've had!' 'Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice." Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Alice awoke from her phantasmagorical journey to Wonderland, having...continued→
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
This morning a coalition of environmental and public health groups issued a report entitled Transition to Green, providing priority environmental recommendations for the Obama administration transition team. I co-chaired the committee responsible for developing priority recommendations for EPA, and also chaired...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
