Obama’s Retreat on New Smog Rule
In a surprise move, president Obama calls a halt on planned EPA regulation tightening ground-level ozone standards, delighting his opponents while mystifying his environmental supporters.
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Monsanto employees in the halls of government
For years, there’s been an open revolving door in Washington – sending workers from the Federal government to Monsanto and Monsanto back to the Federal government. This has a tendency to make people question the fairness and objectivity of the folks who are supposed to be overseeing the giant agricultural corporation. Bovine growth hormone (rGBH) […]
Rethinking Public Dollars To Promote Organic Adoption
There was a news story this week about how there are $1.5 million of Federal funds available to help farmers in Nebraska convert to Organic. This is part of an Obama administration initiative to promote the expansion of Organic agriculture. Frankly, this is a token effort that will have little effect, but there is an […]
Filibuster Reform is Good for the Planet
We can’t protect the planet if popular measures supported by majorities of Americans can’t even come up for a vote in the Senate. Which is why it’s good that all 53 returning Democratic Senators have signed on to a letter calling for filibuster reform. The filibuster – a procedure that’s supposed to be used rarely and […]
Game on! Obama Takes BP to Court Over Gulf Oil Spill
It was the biggest environmental disaster in US history, and now the Obama Justice Department is taking BP to court. BP and four other companies are being sued under the Clean Water Act and the Oil Pollution Act, which say that if they pollute, they have to pay for the cleanup. BP may have to pay penalties […]
What’s Next: GOP Guru Karl Rove Says “Climate is Gone”
We knew this election would have consequences – not that much has gotten done on climate action in the past two years. Now, Republican guru Karl Rove announced this week that “Climate is gone”. Speaking at a Pittsburgh conference on natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation (aka fracking), Rove told the giddy crowd […]
Why’d the White House Play Hard to Get on Solar Panels?
Writing at Salon, Andrew Leonard ponders the imponderable: Is the White House’s new acceptance of solar panels (nearly two years after the Election of Hope!) “…a welcome change of tone, prefiguring a new push on climate change and renewable energy, or yet another example of how a too-cautious administration keeps stepping on its feet”? Bill […]
White House Won’t… er… WILL Go Solar
Beth Buczynski reports over at Care2 that despite last month’s strange snubbing of solar, the Obama White House will go solar after all. “By the end of this spring, there will be solar panels that convert sunlight into electricity and a solar hot water heater on the roof of the White House,” Energy Secretary Steven Chu […]
White House Rejects Carter-era Solar Panel
This just in from Bill McKibben: Dear friends, I just walked out of a disappointing meeting with the White House: they refused to accept the Carter solar panel we came to Washington to deliver and said that they would continue their “deliberative process” to discuss putting solar panels back on the White House roof. Well, […]
Success! BP’s Cap Holds, Oil Flow Halted. What’s Next?
BP concluded 48 hours of testing on the new cap over their busted well, and the results are good. The oil flow has stopped, pressure is stable, and there’s no evidence – so far – that the cap has blown a new leak in the underground well. “As we continue to see success in the […]
Obama Administration Tightens Clean Air Laws
New rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday will require 31 states to significantly improve their air quality for the sake of the rest of the country. The new rule which will be known as the Transport Rule will require 31 states and the District of Columbia to significantly improve their air quality by […]
The Other “Party of No”
The Obama administration is struggling to follow through on promises with regard to health care and climate change because of a Republican party that seems to have no interest in constructive efforts to solve problems for the American people.
Copenhagen Agreement Might Signal End of Post-9/11 Era
The Copenhagen agreement fizzled, but failure to take global action on climate change may have greased the skids for transition from the post-9/11 epoch into a new global Eco Cold War.
Obama Outlines Job Creation and Economic Growth [video]
President Obama outlines his administration’s economic accomplishments, hurdles it faces, and plans to overcome these hurdles.
‘Climategate’ Won’t Sink Copenhagen…This Will
Climategate may give skeptics some ammunition, but those skeptics will not be at the table in Copenhagen. Still, with China and India eyeing growth and the rest of the world cautious on the cost of carbon capping, these are the three factors that will result in something rotten from Denmark.