regulations
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Perry reveals plan for total anarchy: 'a moratorium on regulations'
The Texas governor and presidential candidate says regulations kill jobs. He forgets that they also save lives, and save the U.S. from descending into complete lawlessness.
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Coal-fired power plants close down rather than clean up their emissions
As a result of the EPA's new rules mandating lower toxic emissions, coal-fired power plants are closing their doors. The coal industry is complaining that the new rules are too expensive, will hike electricity rates, and cost jobs. The EPA has these facts on its side, though, according to Business Insider:
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Salmon surprise: House opposes FDA Frankenfish approval
The FDA is currently deliberating on whether to green-light genetically modified salmon and is widely expected to do just that sometime this year.
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EPA bashers aren’t protecting ‘jobs,’ they’re protecting polluters
The right has produced a veritable avalanche of lies about the EPA recently. Michele Bachmann said she'd rename EPA the job-killing organization of America. Nobody so much as blinked.
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Memo to the White House: Closing coal plants is a good thing
Rather than running away from the closure of a coal plant, the White House should be throwing a big party every time a coal plant closes.
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Environmental regulations visible from space
We're learning a lot about space spiders and space bacteria from the nerd horde at the NASA tweetup, but somehow this one from Rachel Maddow writer Tricia McKinney is the most chilling. (She's citing astronaut Leland Melvin.) It's true:
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The coal power industry’s willfully deceptive picture of EPA rules
Every Republican who’s come within shouting distance of a microphone in the past year has charged the EPA with out-of-control, unconstitutional job-killing malefaction — “regulatory overreach” for short. More than a few conservative Dems, led by the crudely pandering Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, have followed suit. This is their way of advocating for […]