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 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 Greening China , Health and the Environment , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
What do Chinese Communist Party air pollution officials share in common with Bush administration air pollution officials?Resort to the rhetoric of “averages” when it comes to obscuring and excusing air pollution.A front page story in today’s Washington Post examines the...
Posted by John Walke in The Media and the Environment
EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock, the second highest-level political appointee at the agency, deserves congratulations for opening up his official EPA blog to public comment after his initial foray into the blogosphere lacked that public feedback capacity.Shortly after I read his...
