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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.
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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski has been in the news a lot lately from her aggressive stance in opposition to the EPA endangerment finding showing that greenhouse gas emissions constitute a threat to human health and welfare, allowing regulation of GHG’s under the Clean Air Act.
Continue Reading Senator Murkowski, the EPA, and Lobbyist Money
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to conduct a show trial it calls the “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century.” Others take the analogy further back to the witch trials of Salem in the 17th century.
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The EPA approves the California waiver allowing the state to enforce tougher tailpipe emissions standards.
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Climatologist James Hansen and actress Daryl Hannah were among those arrested yesterday for protesting mountaintop removal strip mining in West Virginia
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The Obama administration creates the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to help set new standards for the biofuels industry.
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EarthTalk for Monday May 4 – the environmental impacts from the December 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee.
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The Europeans seem confident they’re at a competitive advantage in the current climate and economic crisis because they’ve been playing by the (environmental) book for the past decade.
Brussels has just adopted an Energy and Climate Package (pdf) that insiders boast will set the scene for a “new global industrial revolution”. Those are the very words the European Energy commissioner used to describe the new laws which were passed April 6. Curious what this is all about?
Continue Reading Will Europe Become Energy Independent in a Generation?
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The Environmental Protection Agency has made a start with the active regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from newly built coal-fired power plants. The decision marks a U-turn from the Bush era, when the EPA had been shirking its responsibilities, saying the Clean Air Act did not apply to carbon dioxide.
Continue Reading EPA To Begin Regulating New Coal-Fired Plant Carbon Emissions
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The EPA is objecting to what they deem inadequate emissions controls at a proposed 580-MW coal-fired plant in South Dakota. The developers plan to redress their permit application and anticipate moving forward with the project.
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