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January 23, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
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- coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, midnightregulations, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, streambufferrule
Here's some good news... Today, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his agency will revisit the Bush administration's last-minute industry-friendly rule changes, including those paving the way for oil shale development in the Rockies and easing federal mining restrictions that served as the...continued→
December 18, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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- energydevelopment, midnightregulations, oildrilling,, redrock, robertredford, utah, wilderness, wildlands
I had the great pleasure of meeting Robert Redford a few years ago when he came to D.C. to headline a press event I organized on Capitol Hill, urging Congress not to pass legislation that would open the Arctic National Wildlife...continued→
December 1, 2008
Posted by Rob Perks in Living Sustainably
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- bushrollbacks, energyefficiency, midnightregulations
From the administration that views conservation not as a necessity but a virtue, this little nugget buried in yesterday's WashPost story about Bush's raft of 'midnight regulations' rolling back environmental protections stood out: "On Nov. 19, the OMB ordered the Energy Department to...continued→