The EPA has finally started to undo the raping of the land that George Bush allowed: Dozens of mountaintop coal-mining permits are being put on hold until the projects’ impacts on streams and wetlands can be reviewed, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Announced by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the move targets a controversial practice […]
We really need to go after these threats to our country: Jim Bensman thought his suggestion during a public hearing was harmless enough: Instead of building a channel so migratory fish could go around a dam on the Mississippi River, just get rid of the dam. Instead, the environmental activist found himself in hot water, […]
A shocking blow to our way of life was discovered last year. That was when Bunnatine Greenhouse was fired from her job as the procurement officer for the Army Corp of Engineers. While the government tries to rationalize their decision by calling it “poor performance”, Mrs. Greenhouse’s employee files tell a different tale. Greenhouse was […]
I guess the best client a business could have is the United States government: The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon’s own auditors had identified more than […]
We always hear how the “liberal media” ignores the good going on in Iraq. How we have rebuilt so much of that country and all they report is bombings. To hear the administration and right wing pundits talk, you would think Iraq was a beautifully rebuilt town with all the services and only occasional attacks. […]