Lisa Jackson

Reckoning at Coal River: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Massey Energy, Smcra, Barack Obama, Carol Browner, Epa, Ken Hechler, Nancy Sutley, Coal River Mountain, Mountaintop Removal, Al Gore, Darryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal, Benjamin Carden, Green News

The human rights and constitutional violations of American citizens besieged by ruthless outside coal companies will be on full display this week to the national media and the nation.

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Libby, Montana: EPA Declares Health Emergency Due To Asbestos

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Montana, Lisa Jackson, Asbestos, Libby, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday it will pump more than $130 million into a Montana town where asbestos contamination has be...

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Stimulus Dollars Funding Clean-Diesel Projects

Business First of Columbus: | Matt Burns | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Future Fuel, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, Future of Fuel, Clean Diesel, Green News

Federal stimulus dollars are picking up where a nearly $20 million state program aimed at cutting diesel engine emissions left off....

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UPDATE: Coalfield Advocates Respond to Mountaintop Removal Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, President Jimmy Carter, Mountaintop Removal, Crime, President Barack Obama, Department of Interior, Vice President Al Gore, Lisa Jackson, Ceq, Coal, Green News

Failed mining policy has destroyed our nation's natural heritage, ripped out the roots of the Appalachian culture, and left historic mountain communities in poverty and ruin. And now Obama only wants to "regulate" it.

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Should Wilderness Society Strip US Rep. Nick Rahall of the Ansel Adams Award?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Nick Rahall, Mo Udall, House Natural Resources Committee, Wilderness Society, Flooding, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, Lisa Jackson, Jack Spadaro, Coal, Environmental Protection, Smcra, Green News

Rahall has turned his back on the mountains and mountaineers while more than 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have ripped across the wilderness of his state every day.

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EPA: Recession Won't Stop Clean Energy Revolution

AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Green Business, Pollution, Green Energy, Green News

PARIS — The top U.S. environment official says it's time for the United States to shed its energy-wasting image and lead the world race for clea...

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America's Waterways Need Help - and, Yes, You Can Help

Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

By some estimates, 60 percent of U.S. creeks, rivers, and streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands and other sensitive waterbodies have lost federal protection in the last few years due to the Supreme Court's decisions.

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Can The Dutch Help Us Avoid Another Katrina?

AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Water Use, Water, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Green News

AMSTERDAM — The U.S.' chief environmental official said Tuesday that America can learn much from the way the Dutch manage water _ focusing more ...

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Lisa Jackson Says Everyone Benefits From New Fuel Standards (VIDEO)

Fox Business News | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Fuel Efficiency, Emissions Standards, Environment, Cars, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Green Cars, Green News

EPA Administrator answered questions about the new fuel regulations on Fox Business News today. Among the anchors' concerns: Will consumers buy into ...

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The Faux MB Environmental Scandal That Wasn't

Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Endangerment-Finding, Epa, Jake Tapper, John Barrasso, Shawne Mcgibbon, Peter Orszag, Omb, Bush Administration, Small Business Administration, Mercatus Center, Koch Industries, Media Criticism, ABC News, Ap, Global Warming, Green News

Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.

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Breaking: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Epa, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Flooding, Waterboarding, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Nick Rahall, Coal, Clean Water Act, Green News

Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, a human rights violation and it must be abolished, not regulated.

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Lisa Jackson, Head Of The EPA, Talks Climate Change And Small Business On The "Daily Show" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Lisa Jackson Daily Show, Video, Lisa P. Jackson, Lisa Jackson, Lisa Jackson Obama Cabinet, Daily Show, Lisa Jackson EPA, Epa, Daily Show Lisa Jackson, Jon Stewart Lisa Jackson, Daily Show Epa, Jon Stewart Epa, Green News

Lisa P. Jackson, the new administrator of the EPA and the first African-American woman to hold the post, appeared on the "Daily Show" last night. She ...

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Dear Mr. President: Declare August 3rd as Armistice Day in the Appalachian Coalfields

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green

Read More: White House, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, President Barack Obama, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Washington DC, Clean Energy, Ceq, Coal, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, Epa, President Jimmy Carter, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Green News

Mountaintop removal is an immoral crime against nature and our citizenry, and it must be abolished, not regulated.

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Coal Ash Clean-Up: EPA To Oversee TVA Disaster Recovery

AP | DUNCAN MANSFIELD | Posted 06.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Environment, Tennessee, Coal Ash, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, TVA Disaster, Coal, Tva, Green News

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee that brought natio...

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EPA: Today's Ethanol Isn't Good Enough

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Ethanol, Ethanol Crops, Green Technology, Green News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration renewed its commitment Tuesday to speed up investments in ethanol and other biofuels while seeking to defl...

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Lisa Jackson Is Leading Where We Want to Go: To a Clean Energy Future

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Climate Change, Lisa Jackson, Big Oil, Gillian Caldwell, 1sky, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment, Environmentalism, Green News

She has every intention of doing what the law requires her to do to protect the environment and our public health, and she is ratcheting up the pressure on Congress.

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Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.

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Newt King Coal & Other Big Oil Buffoons

Josh Dorner | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

This week, the defenders of dirty energy really, really outdid themselves in their efforts to try and derail the clean energy jobs plan currently starting to wend its way through the House of Representatives.

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Lisa Jackson On What's Next For New-Look EPA (SLIDESHOW)

US News and World Report | Kent Garber | Posted 05.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Slideshow, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Toxins, Green News

US News has a lengthy Q&A with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about her plans for the EPA (TIME Magazine apparently had the same Earth Day idea). She ...

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A Toxic Lesson

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.

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Terms of Endangerment: EPA to Cut Global Warming Pollution

David Doniger | Posted 05.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Globalwarming, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Endangerment, Clean Air Act, American Clean Energy and Security Act, President Obama, Green News

NRDC salutes President Obama and Administrator Jackson for their actions to tackle global warming. We will work with them to carry out the existing Clean Air Act.

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EPA To Propose Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under Clean Air Act

AP, Washington Post, New York Times | Posted 05.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Environment, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Green News

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and w...

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EPA Continues To Block Harmful Mining Projects

AP | TIM HUBER | Posted 05.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Mining, Coal, Epa, Lisa Jackson, Mountaintop Removal, Green Politics, Green News

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is objecting to three more Appalachian surface mining permits, saying the operation...

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EPA To Clean Up US Port Emissions By 2016

AP | VICTOR EPSTEIN | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Reducing Emissions, Lisa Jackson, Pollution, Green Business, Green Technology, Shipping, Green News

NEWARK, N.J. — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit emissions along the nation's coastline and within its seaports, ju...

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Big Coal Defeat! Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory at Blair Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Removal, Obama Appalachia, Carol Browner, Mining, Green, United Mine Workers of America, Lisa Jackson, Green Energy, Cecil Roberts, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News

After 500 mountains in Appalachia have been blown to bits by mountaintop removal, one peak was most likely saved: Blair Mountain in West Virginia.

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