Archive for the 'pollution' Category
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 [...]
Public Response to Public Smears
Minor Threat, Seein’ Red
The guys who run the blog Butt Head Ass Hat Rump Roast took it upon themselves to say some really shitty things about me because I objected to something one of their writers wrote about my friend, Susie Madrak.
As if parroting PUMA nonsense back in the day wasn’t enough of a drag [...]
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 [...]
ABC News Didn’t Get the Memo: Bush is No Longer President, and Nobody Cares About Him Anymore.
Last night around 6:30, I dropped by a local bar to enjoy a quick beer. As I enjoyed my cold beverage, I became aware that Laura Bush was on the TV, participating in a very long puff piece with ABC News:
In fact, Mrs. Bush said she did not watch President Obama’s address to Congress [...]
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 [...]
Let’s Drill in San Francisco Bay (Updated)
Weak and disgraced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who won’t impeach George W. Bush is leading the push to repeal the ban on offshore oil drilling:
led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, they are offering a mix of proposals that would allow drilling, with the waters off Massachusetts, Virginia, and Georgia most likely to [...]
Humans Are Like Yeast, Chesapeake Edition
As any homebrewer knows, yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide and alcohol. Then the yeast dies, essentially drowning in its own shit.
Human beings have a similar tendency, and you can see it at work in Maryland, where the crabbing industry may be dead for good:
Crabs have thrived in the bottom muck of the Chesapeake [...]
