Archive for the 'environment' Category
New Philly Weekly: Climate Change Follies
I’ve always been confused by the debate between which term is more appropriate to describe humanity’s carbon dioxide driven destruction of our world: global warming or climate change? “Climate change” has such a passive sound to it, but “global warming” is confusing: how come it snows so much if the globe is getting warmer?
So for [...]
EPA Steps Up Standards on Smog
While I criticize the Obama admisnitration when I think they deserve it, this is welcome news, and a real progressive priority:
Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging smog proposed Thursday by the Obama administration.
Costs of compliance could [...]
Is Obama Tearing Down Appalachia Because He Couldn’t get their Vote?
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Obama, August 27 2007:
He said the country also needs a forward-thinking energy policy, and he alluded to his disapproval of the coal mining process of mountaintop removal.
“We’re tearing up the Appalachian Mountains because of our dependence on fossil fuels,” he said, sparking loud applause.
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Obama, March 2008:
“I want strong enforcement of the Clean Water Act. I [...]
Stop HR 759
Just say no to HR 759. call Congress and tell your rep to vote NO.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
he way I see it, plain old normal food has sustained humanity for millions of years, and I’m just not into injecting jellyfish genes or what-have-you into my tomatoes for a redder, shionier, [...]
Bush EPA Guts Mountaintop Removal Rule
Speaking of miners and mining abuses, via Pine View farm, the Bush Administration’s EPA (an oxymoron if there ever was one) has decided to allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining:
The 1983 rule prohibited dumping the fill from mountaintop removal mining within 100 feet of streams. In practice, the [...]
