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Unintended Consequences

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species and Environment, Coal, Endangered Species Act, Green News

When the Bush administration decided that it was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming someone in the bowels of the administration came up with a clever idea.

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Obama Climate Czar Intentionally Erased Digital Trail

Washington Times | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Carol Browner Records, Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner, Carol Browner EPA, Browner Trail, Carol Browner Environmental Protection Agency, Browner Epa, Politics News

Don't bother looking for any electronic records of Carol Browner's first stint as a federal government executive. The soon-to-be Obama administration ...

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Salvaging the EPA: Can Jackson Do It?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change, Bush Administration, Stephen Johnson, Green News

It is a testament to the Bush administration's incompetence that, over the span of just eight years, it has transformed the EPA, once the gatekeeper of the nation's environmental policies, into a shadow of its former self.

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Browner's Second Chance: Obama's Green Team Traces Its Roots Back to Gore

David Roberts | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, Carol Browner Energy Czar, Council on Environmental Quality, Lisa Jackson EPA, Carol Browner, Kathleen Mcginty, Epa, Environment, Nancy Sutley, Obama Administration, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama Cabinet, Politics News

When Obama promised change, he wasn't talking about plucking amateurs from outside government. He was talking about a change from incompetence and stagnation to competence and progress.

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Flaccid Apparatchik: The Stephen Johnson Story

David Roberts | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Religion, Environmental Protection Agency, George W. Bush, Epa, Environment, Religion and Politics, Stephen Johnson, Politics News

grist.orgAnyone interested in understanding not only Bush's environmental legacy but the Bush Era simply must carve out the time to read "Smoke ...

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Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator?

Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson Obama Cabinet, Lisa Jackson EPA, Obama Administration, Lisa Jackson, Politics News

The AP reports that Obama intends to name Lisa Jackson, the former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, as his Envir...

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Carol Browner, Energy Czar?

Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Carol Browner EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner, Carol Browner Energy Czar, Obama Energy Czar, Politics News

AP is reporting that Carol Browner is likely to be named as Obama's energy "czar": President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmenta...

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Bush's Environmental Chief: There's "Not A Clean-Cut Division" Between Religion And Science

Think Progress | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Environmental Protection Agency, Johnson Epa Religion and Science, Epa, Stephen Johnson, Science, Politics News

A Philadelphia Inquirer profile of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson this weekend reveals that the chief steward of our environmental protection is un...

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Obama Considers Appointing Energy "Czar"

Wall Street Journal | STEPHEN POWER and NEIL KING JR. | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Obama Energy, Obama Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Obama Energy Czar, Barack Obama, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama and his aides are close to naming a slate of appointees to run the departments of Interior and Energy and the Environment...

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Obama Appointments: Time for a Coal-Onoscopy

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dirty Coal, President-Elect Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal, Mountaintop Removal, Msha, Labor Department, Office of Surface Mining, Department of Interior, Big Coal, Obama Transition, Department of Energy, Cabinet Appointments, Barack Obama, Green News

If President-elect Obama is truly serious about affecting climate change... then we must end the appointment of coal and other extraction industry executives.

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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

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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EPA Appeals Board Says No to Dirty Coal Plants Nationwide

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green

Read More: Coal Plants, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Renewable Energy, Environment, Onesky, Climate Change, Coal, Global Warming, 1sky, Green News

Yesterday, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appeals board issued a ruling that will essentially halt the construction of new coal plants in the United States for the near term.

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The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ, Moves On -- Victory!

Carl Pope | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Coal Plants, Carbon Emissions, Coal, Global Warming, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Green, Green Energy, Politics News

The EAB just ruled that the EPA had no valid reason for refusing to limit carbon dioxide emissions from new coal-fired power plants. This may signal the beginning of a clean energy future.

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Breaking: Landmark EPA Ruling Kills 30+ Planned Coal Plants

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Coal Sierra, Utah Coal Plant, Clean Coal, Sierra Club Coal, Coal, Epa Coal, Coal Industry, Carbon Emissions, Epa, Green, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment, Green News

A decision by the Environmental Protection Agency today has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxide emissions regulated. Wow.

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America Recycles Day

Michael DeJong | Posted 12.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Fabri, Scrap Metal, Liberty Bell, Up-Cyclying, Landfills, Environment, Aluminum, Plastic Bags, Biodegradable, Environmental Protection Agency, Paper, Glass, Green News

If you read anything in print you should know that the act of recycling paper decreases the demand for virgin pulp thereby reducing the devastation of forests.

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Obama v. Bush: Climate Change Executive Order Reversals, Could Establish National Energy Council (Video Roundup)

George Spyros | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Auto Emissions, President Barack Obama, Climate Change, Fight Global Warming, Fight Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Environmental Law, Environmental Legislation, Legislation, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Automobile Emissions, Californina, Green News

President-elect Obama's top priority of stimulating the economy and create jobs will involve new environmental actions aimed at having long-term benefits.

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The Bush Administration Fails to Make the Grade on Science Transparency 101

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Science, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Administration, George Bush Science, George W. Bush, Green News

Few agencies in the Bush administration have seen their roles and credibility be more diminished than those responsible for overseeing the country's scientific progress.

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Update: Obama Adviser Says 'Yes' - What Sayest McCain?

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Obama McCain, Climate Change, Epa, Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Supreme Court, Environment, Greenhouse Gases, Obama, Global Warming, Green News

Back in July I posed a question to the presidential candidates: will our next president follow the Supreme Court's directive to regulate carbon dioxid...

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How Much More Damage Can They Do? (And Can We Undo It?)

Carl Pope | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Sarah Palin, Beluga Whales, Epa, Green News

Last week's EPA decision to set science-based air quality standards for lead was clearly a fluke -- not a declaration of independence by environmental agency leaders against Cheney and the White House.

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Speak Now Against Bush's Great Coal Giveaway

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, John McCain, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Coal, Big Coal, George W. Bush, Environment, Coal, Barack Obama, Green, Al Gore, Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

After a year of record profits, coal operatives will receive nearly $2.8 billion in tax credits in the recent Wall Street bailout.

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Getting It Right at the EPA

Carl Pope | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Stephen Johnson, Epa, Lead, Green, Green Living, Politics News

Wonderful things do happen: The new EPA standards tighten the allowable lead level by a factor of 10 down to 0.15 micrograms of lead per cubic meter of air.

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Debate -- McCain calls Nuclear Safety Advocates "Extreme Environmentalists"

Steve Parker | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Harry Reid, Environmental Protection Agency, President Nixon, John McCain, Secretary of Transportation, Epa, Environment, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Cars, Nhtsa, Nevada, Arizona, Mccain/Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News

McCain made a gaffe (not as bad as when he called Obama "Senator Government"), which got me thinking and worried me greatly.

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To the Presidential Candidates....Debate This!

Deirdre Imus | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Canditates, Environmental Health, Health, Vaccine, Presidential Debate, Children's Health, 2008 Election, Deirdre Imus, Superfund Trust Fund, Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, International Agency for Research in Cancer, Who, Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, Usda, Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Dr. David Graham, Superfund Waste Sites, Union of Concerned Scientists, National Institute for Environomental Health Sciences, Hurricane Katrina, American Chemical Council, Toxic Substances Control Act, World Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, Faroes Statement, The Surviellence Epidemiology and End Results, Chemical Related Illness, Vicp, Cog, Fema, Children's Oncology Group, Government Accounting Office, Epa, Dangerous Chemicals, Vioxx, Gao, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cam, Niehs, Seer, Iarc, Acc, Tosca, 100 Days, Politics News

No question, the energy and economic crisis affect us all. But noticeably absent from the primaries and now the presidential debates have been any discussions about America's children.

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Spill, Baby, Spill!

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Election and Environment, Hurricane Ike, Environmentalism, Sarah Palin Vice President, McCain Offshore Drilling, Democrats Offshore Drilling, Hurricane Ike Texas, Sarah Palin Cartoon, Drill Baby Drill, Offshore Drilling, Environmental Protection Agency, Oil Spill, Satire, Sarah Palin, Oil, Environment, Political Satire, Vice Presidential Debate 2008, Politics News

The scary thing is that the Republicans want more. Even after it's obvious the realities of "drill, baby, drill" are "spill, baby, spill", they still want more.

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