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Copenhagen Blues: Obama's Weak Hand on Climate, and the California Option

William Bradley | Posted 12.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Copenhagen 2009, Jerry Brown, Nancy Pelosi, India, Henry Waxman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, China, Barack Obama, California, John Kerry, Clean Air Act, United Nations, George W. Bush, European Union, Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
William Bradley

Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.

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EPA's Renewed Emphasis On Oil And Gas Regulations Have Colorado Companies Concerned

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel | Dennis Webb | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver

Read More: Colorado Oil Industry, Oil, Epa, Air Quality Control, Wild Earth Guardians, Oil Companies, Denver News

When it comes to how the Environmental Protection Agency regulates oil and gas industry air pollution, the agency "has been invigorated, to say the le...

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300 Clean Water Act Violations! Illinois Citizens File Notice to Sue Reckless Coal Strip Mine

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Springfield, Pat Quinn, Sierra Club, Dirty Coal, Prairie River Network, Chicago, Clean Water Act, Epa, Strip Mine, Big Coal, Endangered Species, Illinois, Coal, Chicago News
Jeff Biggers

How did discharges of illegal levels of pollutants, including manganese, total suspended solids, sulfates, iron, and acidic water wind up in some of the last old growth forest in Illinois?

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Saboteurs at Copenhagen

William S. Becker | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Greenhouse Gases, United Nations, Endangerment Finding, Epa, President Obama, Green News
William S. Becker

The Obama Administration must get serious about using its regulatory authority to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions well below the levels being considered on Capitol Hill.

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Palin: Birthing Global Warming Denial

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ed Markey, Copenhagen 2009, Epa, Sarah Palin, Waxman-Markey, Rep. Edward Markey, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming, Politics News
Rep. Ed Markey

The right-wing misinformation machine is in full swing. And that machine doesn't have its final cylinder cranking until Sarah Palin jumps into the fray, which she did today in a mistake-riddled, anti-clean energy op-ed.

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The EPA and COP15

Susan Cosier | Posted 12.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Copenhagen, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Nicholas Stern, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Epa, Green News
Susan Cosier

The EPA announced that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to human health. This finding is a positive step toward regulating greenhouse gases, and it could give the U.S. more leverage in Copenhagen.

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EPA's E15 Non-Ruling: A Quiet End to American Energy Independence

David Blume | Posted 12.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Alcoholfuel, Green Jobs, Ethanol, Big Oil, President Obama, e15, Green News
David Blume

The EPA's delay regarding the amount of alcohol fuel that can be used as a gasoline additive is potentially devastating to America's quest for energy independence and a clean tech economic future.

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Clean Water Act Expansion: 28 Western Republicans Seeking To Block Revision Of Clean Water Act

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 12.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Epa, Colorado, Clean Water Act Expansion, Army Corps of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Wyoming, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act ...

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EPA Finally Sides With Science

Sandra Thompson | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Biofuels, Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Climate Change Science, Epa Climate Change, Climate Change, Green News
Sandra Thompson

EPA is often torn between sound science, analytical techniques/limitations and politics. The agency's announcement that scientific evidence shows greenhouse gases contribute to health and environmental safety is long overdue.

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EPA Agrees To Review Oil And Gas Pollution Standards After Lawsuit

AP | Posted 12.08.2009 | Denver

Read More: Oil and Gas, Environmental Protection Agency, Oil and Gas Pollution, Epa, Air Pollution Lawsuit, EPA Lawsuit, Denver News

DENVER — Federal officials have agreed to review air pollution standards for oil and gas operations to decide if they need to be updated. The pro...

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Jason Linkins

GOP: EPA Greenhouse Gas Finding Threatens Kittens, Puppies

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Junk-Science, EPA Endangerment Finding, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Kittens, Greenhouse Gases, Puppies, Climate Change Legislation, Green News

Over at the Washington Independent, Mike Lillis pulls a quote from the Republican Study Committee, pushing back on the EPA's greenhouse gas endangerme...

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The Incredible Hulk in Copenhagen

Mike Signer | Posted 12.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Lisa Jackson EPA, Epa, Endangerment Finding, Obama Administration, Barack Obama, Green News
Mike Signer

The critics should be silenced by EPA's announcement today formally declaring that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant, paving the way for its regulation under the Clean Air Act.

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Obama on His Own

Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Energy Efficiency, Lisa Jackson, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Waxman-Markey, Epa, Green, Climate Change, Department of Energy, Green Energy, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Green News
Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

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EPA: Greenhouse Gases Are Danger To Human Health, Must Be Regulated

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Epa Greenhouse Gases, Epa, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency took a major step Monday toward regulating greenhouses gases, concluding that climate changing ...

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In the Name of Rosa Parks: Arrest of 81-Year-Old on Fast, Mourning Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Human Rights, White House, Green Jobs, Civil Rights, President Obama, Mountaintop Removal, cop15, Rosa Park, Coal, Christmas Tree, Al Gore, Green News
Jeff Biggers

On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, an 81-year-old veteran and anti-mountaintop removal activist was arrested by law enforcement authorities.

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Michael Bennet, Betsy Markey Claim Inadequate Public Engagement In Western Slope Uranium Permit

AP | By Judith Kohler | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Powertech USA, Epa, Michael Bennet, Betsy Markey, Colorado Uranium Mine, Uranium Mine, Denver News

DENVER - Two members of the state's congressional delegation sent a letter Monday urging federal officials to involve the public as they consider any ...

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Verizon Wireless Violates Environmental Regulations In 655 Facilities, To Pay Nearly Half A Million In Fines

Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Verizon Environmental Regulations, Verizon, Verizon Environmental Penalties, Epa, Green News

The EPA has just announced that Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a penalty of $468,000 for violating environmental regulations at 655 facilities in ...

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Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Superfund Polluter Pays Act, H.R. 832, Superfund Sites, Coal-Fired Power Plant, Environmental Health, Mercury, Coal Ash, Birth Defects, Love Canal, Pcbs, Pollution, Children's Health, Superfund, Heavy Metals, Cercla, Green News
Deirdre Imus

Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.

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Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Coalmining, Interior, Appalachia, Fillrule, Salazar, Fill, Mountaintopremoval, Dirtycoal, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Climate Change, Green News
Rob Perks

Interior doing its job by pledging to crack down on mountaintop removal? That's certainly welcome news. Aye, but there's a rub.

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EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Yerington, Us Bureau of Land Management, Mining, Epa, Atlantic Richfield, Uranium, British Petroleum, Nevada, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Nevada Department Of, Uranium Mine, Hydreology, Uranium Mines, New Mexico, Green News

YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...

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First Do No Harm: Connecting The Dots Between Environmentalism And Health Care Reform

John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Toxics, Water, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environment, Health Care Reform, Mercury, Hate Speech, Air Pollution, Pollution, Health Care, Green News
John DeCock

If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?

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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News
David Kirby

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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Half of All Fish In U.S. Lakes Are Toxic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Pbts, Health, Fish, Epa, Mercury, Pregnancy, Coal-Fired-Power-Plants, Lakes, Pcbs, Wellness, Living News
Wendy Gordon

A new EPA study found 268 bio-accumulative and toxic chemicals--notably mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins and furans--in fish from a national sampling of 500 lakes and reservoirs.

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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News
David Kirby

If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.

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