Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
Pregnant women need to eat right to provide the right nutrition for their babies… and to avoid harmful chemicals. But a new study shows that may not be good enough, as some nasty long-banned substances persist in the environment… and in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. The [...]
“EPA, you come on in and mess with Texas. We need your help,” said Allison Silva with the No Coal Coalition in Dallas Friday. And Dallas County Treasurer Joe Well told the EPA, ”The federal government has to do it because the state government has failed.” “It” is the Environmental Protection Agencies policy of working with [...]
“ “Carbon sequestration” seems like a good idea: Instead of pumping CO2 into the air, why not liquefy it and pump it into the ground? This is one of the linchpins of clean coal. If we do that, we can keep burning coal and natural gas, we don’t get global warming and nobody has to [...]
CBS’s new “Eco-Ads” program could be a great way to tell consumers that companies are getting serious about making their products better for the planet. Or it could be more window dressing, more greenwashing – and in violation of FTC guidelines, to boot. On the bright side, the fact that this program exists at all [...]
It’s official. After 13 years of negotiations, studies, and court battles, the Environmental Protection Agency is protecting the environment by telling Arch Coal Company that its Spruce No 1 “mountaintop removal” coal mine is terminally bad for the environment. As such, the agency is vetoing it. The mine would have been the largest ever, and [...]
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the president of the Western States Petroleum Association, claimed the oil industry is “doing their share to promote renewable energy” in an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee on Sunday January 9.) “Villainizing the petroleum industry does nothing to promote sound energy policy,” she contended. “Oil companies in the United States are the single [...]
“…It’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds” (President Barak Obama’s comments at the memorial service in Tuscon) To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students [...]
A Federal Court told Texas today that – surprise, surprise – it has to follow the law. If Texas has a mess, it’s okay for the EPA to step in and clean it up. This is the third time the courts have told Texas they won’t block the EPA from implementing greenhouse gas emissions to [...]
In the wake of the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend, it appears the FBI is taking death threats against Democrats more seriously. They announced today the arrest of a Palm Springs man, Charles Turner Habermann, for threatening Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA). Habermann threatened to kill the Congressman, his family and friends He [...]
I learned last week that Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is floating the idea of stopping EPA’s work to reduce carbon dioxide pollution for at least one year. To say that I am disappointed is an understatement. I have known and admired Senator Sherrod Brown for years, and I respect his track record on defending the environment. [...]
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