Lisa Jackson
-
The people have spoken: let the EPA do its job
Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Yesterday, members of Rep. Fred Upton’s (R-Mich.) House Energy and Commerce Committee held their first hearing on Chair Upton’s proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency from updating Clean Air Act safeguards to protect our health from life-threatening carbon pollution. (Hat tip and bow to EPA chief Lisa […]
-
Bush’s Johnson stood up for climate
Stephen Johnson, former EPA administrator under Bush.Cross-posted from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Yesterday, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) released a 2008 letter [PDF] from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson to President George W. Bush saying that the science supported “a positive endangerment determination” on carbon pollution, and proposing an action plan to curb emissions […]
-
The Climate Post: Here come a bunch of bills to block the EPA
The chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) unveiled draft legislation to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The bill caps a rough week for the EPA in Congress, reports Kate Sheppard of Mother Jones. It is joined by a […]
-
Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal ash disposal
The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town’s groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usually associated with steel manufacturing and metal plating, has been discovered seeping from coal ash disposal […]
-
Obama's regulatory reform will focus on fairness
Obama's executive order adds "human dignity" and "fairness" to the list of considerations.
-
The Climate Post: Hu Jintao's visit prompts soul searching in U.S. energy and climate circles
The amount of material that came out after China President Hu Jintao's visit shows how pivotal energy and climate change are between the US and China
-
Does pollution lock people into a cycle of poverty?
The EPA is funding grants to study environmental injustice and the effects of poverty and environment on health.
-
Is Obama's EPA trying to implement 'backdoor cap-and-trade'? Um, no.
Conservatives say that by using EPA to regulate CO2, Obama is short-circuiting democracy and implementing "backdoor cap-and-trade." That's a myth.
-
The Wall Street Journal editorial board does not like clean air
The Wall Street Journal's editorial on the EPA mangles basic facts and omits mention of the overwhelming public health benefits from cleaner air.