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Appeals court ruling closes Clean Air Act loophole
Green groups won an important victory for clean air last week when a federal appeals court ruled that chemical plants, refineries, and other industrial sites are still subject to pollution limits even during equipment malfunctions and when plants start up or shut down. Some refineries and other sites have used the Clean Air Act’s start-up, […]
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EPA declares waste from oil-shale production ‘non-hazardous’
Waste products from oil-shale development are not hazardous and thus would not have to be treated as such, the U.S. EPA ruled this week, thereby lowering the costs of developing oil-shale deposits on public lands in the U.S. West.
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Nancy Sutley is expected to be effective at CEQ, even in Carol Browner’s shadow
Nancy Sutley and Barack Obama. Washington wags may wonder who will be top green dog in the Obama White House — flashy “energy czarina” Carol Browner or shy, retiring Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley — but folks who know Sutley say there’s nothing to worry about. Sutley is supposed to be the president’s […]
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‘Repower, refuel & rebuild America’
A new ad campaign from LCV, trying to build support for a bold green agenda from Obama:
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Governator on 60 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks with 60 Minutes about his state’s financial troubles and green initiatives:
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Reality Coalition releases new ad spoofing coal industry
The Reality Coalition has another installment of its campaign pointing out that “clean coal” doesn’t really exist. This one, “COALergy: Leave Climate Change to Us,” spoofs coal-industry advertising:
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Pielke, Tierney, Lomborg, and CEI diss Obama science adviser
[Please post your response to Tierney’s column here.] Science advisor pick John Holdren gets global warming. Although he is wildly overqualified for the job compared to anybody a GOP President has named in recent memory — heck, Holdren was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science — the deniers and delayers have […]
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What Obama’s new science adviser has to say about climate change
Ben Smith digs up two pieces from Obama’s new science adviser, John Holdren. The first, from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, titled “The Sky Is Falling,” requires a subscription (though perhaps the title says enough). And here’s a piece titled “The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.’s Last Chance to Lead,” from Scientific […]
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Barbara Boxer wants AG to block EPA’s Johnson
Senate Environment and Public Works chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) is petitioning Attorney General Michael Mukasey to stop “renegade” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson’s recent decision on coal-fired power plants. Johnson decreed last week that power plants’ greenhouse-gas emissions shouldn’t be taken into consideration when determining whether to approve their construction, countering the EPA Appeals […]
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Eco-activist bids up oil and gas leases at auction
At a federal auction for oil and gas leases in Utah last week, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher posed as a buyer, successfully bidding up lease prices on BLM land by hundreds of thousands of dollars and winning 13 parcels that he admits he can’t actually pay for. The BLM is giving the other (real) bidders […]
