Our new governor here in Ohio has a police problem: Looking for ammunition against a bill to strip collective bargaining rights, public unions have seized on a verbal insult the Ohio governor used repeatedly last month to describe a police officer who pulled him over in a traffic stop three years ago. Critics are distributing […]
A couple of stories have my blood really boiling this morning over the whole oil spill mess. First we have BP ignoring EPA orders to not use the toxic dispersant. BP just ignored them time and time again and the EPA finally threw their arms up and caved: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bush tried to “pass the buck” on high fuel prices by blaming them on “boutique” fuels (required cleaner burning fuels). Unfortunately for Bush, the EPA sees it differently: “Boutique” gasoline blends to help states meet clean air rules are not a factor in higher prices as President Bush has suggested, says a draft of a […]
Well it looks like Bush might have found a work-around for the pesty environmental claims: Proposed budget cuts could cripple a nationwide system of Environmental Protection Agency libraries that government researchers and others depend on for hard-to-find technical information, library advocates say. The $2 million cut sought by the White House would reduce the 35-year-old […]
This is another story that is growing and could possibly gain some real momentum in the near future: A judge attacked former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman for reassuring Manhattan residents soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks that the environment was safe to return to homes and offices while toxic dust was polluting […]