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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Environmental Protection Agency has created stricter standers for sulfur dioxide emissions. Through the Clean Air Act, the EPA has lowered the ceiling for acceptable levels of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere and is requiring large stationary emitters to record emissions on an hourly basis instead of a once-a-day basis. With the previous once-a-day rule, emitters could just take the daily sample during a time of low emissions and just never take readings during hours of high emissions.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: Week of May 31-June 6
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In an effort to dissuade congressional leaders to halt their anti-science campaign opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding signed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson late last year specifying carbon emissions as a risk to human health and welfare, more than 500 scientists have signed a letter urging Congress to oppose resolutions seeking to reverse that finding.
Continue Reading Scientists Slam Lawmakers Attempt to Block EPA Regulation of Emissions
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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson held firm against lead climate pseudo-skeptic James Inhofe and his colleagues on Tuesday at an EPA budget hearing with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Continue Reading EPA Chief Lisa Jackson Spars With Senate GOP Over Climate Science
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The Give and Take of Washington: If You Can’t Take It, Then Don’t Give It…
In a press release last week, Greenpeace announced the launch of PolluterHarmony. The parody website, created through Greenpeace’s PolluterWatch, seeks to match “lobbyists. CEO’s, and propagandists” with easy and willing public officials to help ease the path to buying and selling influence and “sabotage our clean energy future without ever leaving the house.” The site is a spoof on the popular matchmaking site eHarmony.
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Sixteen states and New York City have filed a motion in federal court requesting permission to challenge an industry-sponsored “Petition for Review” filed last month in Federal Appeals Court after EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed an Endangerment Finding on December 7th stating that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to human health and welfare.
Continue Reading States Seek Court Ruling to Defend Industry Challenge to EPA Endangerment Finding
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with permission)
On Thursday afternoon, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) pulled out a rarely-used Congressional tool in an attempt to keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating carbon and other greenhouse gasses. Sen. Murkowski offered a “resolution of disapproval” of the EPA’s impending action, which would limit companies’ carbon emissions.
Continue Reading The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: Murkowski vs. the EPA
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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
(reposted with permission)
Climate change legislation is off the table for now, but the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is still working to regulate greenhouse gasses. The organization is up against strong opposition from Republicans and some Democrats. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is heading the charge, with the assistance of Bush-era EPA officials, now lobbyists with clients in the energy industry.
Continue Reading The Weekly Mulch from the Media Consortium: EPA, Clean Air Act Facing Opposition
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As promised, Republican members of the Senate Energy and Public works committee failed to show up at the mark-up session for the Kerry-Boxer climate and energy bill convened by chairperson Senator Barbara Boxer, save for a brief appearance by Ohio Senator George Voinovich – who showed up for a brief time to deliver a prepared statement as to why they weren’t showing up. Ostensibly, the Republican’s justify their refusal to participate in the deliberative process (i.e. their jobs) because they claim there is not sufficient cost-analysis on the bill from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Continue Reading Senate Climate Negotiations Falter on Republican Inability to Participate
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On Friday the Environmental Protection Agency announced its intention to revoke a permit issued in 2007 for the Mingo Logan Coal Spruce #1 surface mine, a unit owned by Arch Coal Inc. of St. Louis.
Continue Reading EPA Seeks to Block Mountaintop Removal Permit
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Energy and Environment (E&E) reporters Darren Samuelsohn and Robin Bravender reveal a 29-page endangerment document from 2007 showing the Bush-era EPA had concluded that CO2 gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
Continue Reading Podcast: Bush Era Endangerment Finding Shows Health Risk of CO2
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