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The Future of Bush's Past

Stuart Blumin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Herbert Hoover, Healthcare System, Karl Rove, Carbon Emissions, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Environmentalism, Passing the Buck, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, History, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment and Government, Marshall Plan, Middle East, Nato, Environment, Department of Justice, Health Care System, Health Care, Politics News
Stuart Blumin

History will identify the Bush-Cheney administration as the last holdout of the Age of Carbon, using its crucial eight years to block every effort to end the reign of fossil fuels.

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Water Quality Regulation in California: A Day Late and a Dollar Short?

David S. Beckman | Posted 03.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Water Resources Control Boards, Environment and Government, California, Water Pollution, Water Pollutants, Water, Clean Water Act, Nature, Clean Water, Environment, Environmentalism, Pollution, Green News
David S. Beckman

The core component of California's Clean Water Act is the issuance of permits -- basically, limitations on the discharge of pollution -- to dischargers of water pollution.

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A Message to Congress: Energy Smart Programs Will Save the Economy

Brian Keane | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment and Government, Energy Efficiency, Congress, Alternative Energy, Green News, Clean Energy, Green Living, Green Energy, Barack Obama, Tom Friedman, Obama Energy Policy, Clean Coal, Obama Green, Tennessee Coal Ash, Nuclear Energy, Green Building, Obama Administration Environmental Policy, Obama Job Creation, TVA Kingston, Obama Green Infrastructure, Obama Environment, Japan Earthquake, Job Creation, Retrofitting Buildings, Green News
Brian Keane

Despite Friday's piece in the Times, there seems to be a growing consensus around Washington that the road to our nation's economic salvation will be ...

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GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Mass Transit, US Auto Industry, Global Economy, GM Bailout, Bradford Snell, Cars, Passenger Rail, Green Power, Green Energy, Alfred P. Sn, Solartopia, Environment and Government, Who Killed the Electric Car, Bailout, General Motors, Standard Oil, Trolley Systems, Gm Green, Trains, Buses, Detroit Bailout, Global Warming, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

GM's special role in history must now evolve into using its infrastructure to restore the mass transit system -- and ecological balance -- it has helped destroy.

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Can President Obama Save the Environment?

Steve Fleischli | Posted 12.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Congress, Environment and Government, Water, George W. Bush, Clean Water, Environment, Obama Transition, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News
Steve Fleischli

President Bush has left a regulatory wasteland in his wake these last eight years, and it won't be easy for President Obama to undo all of the Bush ro...

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