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"Exaggerated deference"

Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:12 PM
A week and a half after the Kingston coal ash disaster, TVA is continuing its campaign of spin and obfuscation. Yesterday, TVA's overpaid CEO Tom Kilgore escorted Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen on a photo-op tour of the edge of the disaster site. This
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Bank of America to halt loans for mountaintop removal

Monday, December 08, 2008 7:56 PM
Well, color me surprised : Bank of America Corp will sharply cut lending to coal mining companies that take the tops off mountains, following pressure from groups that call the practice an environmental hazard. The move by the top U.S. bank represents
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Bush's newest attack on air quality and national parks

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:20 PM
In one stroke, the Bush administration has launched fresh attacks on two of its favorite targets -- air quality and the national parks : The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired
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The closing argument for Obama and against Bush III

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:37 PM
Obama gave his " closing argument " speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.
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The Red Cross under stress

Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:15 PM
Hurricane Ike is fixing to beat the crap out of coastal Texas. For the fourth time in a month, the American Red Cross is having to respond to a hurricane. As a result of Fay, Gustav, and Hanna, the Red Cross has already incurred significant debt ; as
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Court smacks down EPA-sanctioned pollution

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:43 PM
In 1990, Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act which ordered a state to set more stringent limits on air pollution if that state determined that the Clean Air Act was insufficient inside its borders. The monitoring requirements and sufficiency
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Backdoor repeal of the Endangered Species Act

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:28 PM
We're now witnessing a back-door repeal of the Endangered Species Act: The Bush administration yesterday proposed a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act to allow federal agencies to decide whether protected species would be imperiled by agency
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EPA turns a blind eye to Gulf of Mexico dead zone

Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:15 PM
Every year, agricultural runoff from Midwestern states pumps extraordinary amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mississippi River. These chemicals collect at the mouth of the river, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. This causes
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Gore calls for totally clean electricity within 10 years

Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:50 PM
Today, Al Gore gave a speech at George Washington University in which he called for a massive push to transform our energy economy; he audaciously suggested that we can and must convert 100 percent of our electricity generation to clean sources within
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EPA admits the problem, refuses to act

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:03 PM
A Supreme Court decision from 2007 ( PDF here ) mandated that the Environmental Protection Agency was required under the Clean Air Act to determine if anthropogenic carbon dioxide represents a threat to human health. In December, the EPA sent an email
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