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Key Obama advisers on climate and energy
Track the debate and take action >>> UPDATED: 16 Sep 2009 President Barack Obama’s key advisers on energy and climate issues include a former top aide to Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, a governor, and a gaggle of former members of Congress. Here’s a rundown: Carol Browner Assistant to the President for […]
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Should Wilderness Society strip Rahall of award?
“Something like a shadow has fallen between the past and the present, an abyss wide as war that cannot be bridged by any tangible connection, so that memory is undermined and the image of our beginnings betrayed, dissolved, rendered not mythical but illusory. We have connived in the murder of our own origins.” — Edward […]
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Coal Ash Dumped on the Disadvantaged
In December, a coal slurry impoundment owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) gushed 50 times more toxic waste than the Exxon Valdez in a well publicized and inevitable disaster that unjustly ruined many homes and downstream ecosystems. So how to describe what’s happening to the sludge currently being dredged from waterways and swimming pools? […]
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EPA administrator Lisa Jackson on The Daily Show
Jon Stewart had two green-related segments last night. First was an interview with EPA administrator Lisa Jackson: [vodpod id=Video.1622577&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse] The second was a hilarious Samantha Bee bit on Michelle Obama’s organic garden and Big Ag’s opposition to it: [vodpod id=Video.1622682&w=425&h=350&fv=autoPlay%3Dfalse]
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House Democrat defends OMB memo source
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) On Thursday, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), chair of the House Committee on Small Business, issued a statement responding to the controversy over an interagency memo critical of the EPA’s endangerment finding (see here, here, here): The SBA’s Office of Advocacy plays a vital role in the regulatory process. They are […]
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California plans no exit from hydrogen highway
California is planning to invest millions to support the rollout of new hydrogen fueling stations. Pictured here is a station near Los Angeles Int’l Airport that was built by a partnership that included BP, Praxair and LAX.Courtesy Hydrogen Assn. Energy Secretary Steven Chu may want to slam the brakes on future hydrogen funding, but California […]
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Final (ironic) notes on the fake “OMB memo” story
In my post on the development of the fake “OMB memo” story, I speculated wildly — as is my responsibility as a blogger — that some sort of sneaky dirty-energy lobbyist fed the story to Dow Jones’ Ian Talley, the first “real” reporter to do a story on it. It seems the truth may be […]
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How the ‘OMB memo’ non-story happened
How to cook a non-story…Courtesy Arbron via Flickr Now that the “White House memo” hoopla is over — except insofar as it will live on forever as a zombie Republican talking point — it’s worth pausing to review what happened. It’s a remarkable, real-time example of how the polluter/Republican/media nexus works. And it raises some […]
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Barton worries that EPA will regulate runners
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is concerned about the plight of marathon runners under a cap-and-trade plan. No, we’re not making this up. Barton, the ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee and a vocal climate skeptic, told conservative magazine Newsmax in an interview published on Monday that he is worried that regulating greenhouse-gas emissions […]
