The Sierra Club has been fighting this for a long time and they finally won: In a landmark action, the Environmental Protection Agency’s final decision-making board has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated. The Environmental Appeals Board ruled today that the EPA has no valid […]
There was a lot of talk this week about Al Gore’s utility bill. When a right wing smear machine released a statement that Gore’s utility bill was $30,000 last year, the typical vultures jumped on it. Their support of the claims was nothing more than a picture: This picture was spread around the right wing […]
It looks like Bush is starting to get a real lonely feeling in the international community. Members of Tony Blair’s own party are now starting to blast our incompetent President: A senior Labour backbencher has attacked the Bush administration, describing it as “incompetent” and guilty of “appalling complacency.” Former minister of state Nick Raynsford’s criticism […]
An Inconvenient Truth is already being coined as “alarming” and “frightning”. Perhaps that is why the big oil companies are running scared and getting ready to spend their money (or should I say our money) to launch counter ads, as Think Progress points out: Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV […]