Environment 

What Should D.C. Do For Mountaintop Miners?

Cat.: Beltway Outsider, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming
28. January 2010
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The Washington Post's David Farenthold reports on dramatic confrontations between environmentalists and mountaintop miners in Appalachia West Virginia: Environmentalists are unhappy because they fear federal officials are losing their nerve to take on the powerful coal industry. The coal industry is unhappy because it thinks the administration is on the ...

EPA Regulators Left To Twist In CO2-Filled Wind

Cat.: Beltway Outsider, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming
11. January 2010
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The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Power and Ian Talley report on state government concerns about the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions that curb global warming. Power and Talley doesn't make this distinction but there seem two different  kinds of complaints from states. States like California ...

Would it Kill You to Read Harper’s?

Cat.: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Free Agency, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), Preventive Journalism
04. January 2010
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It might kill you if you don't.  One of the nation's oldest publications, Harper's has seen its share of wars and corporate misdeeds come and go, and it's still on the lookout.  Here David Gargill relates why ...

Stimulus Funds Saving Coral Reefs

Cat.: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Environment, Free Agency
29. September 2009
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President Obama vowed early in his presidency that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would do double duty by creating or maintaining jobs and by helping solve problems in the environment, education, and basic infrastructure. As NPR's Greg Allen reports, $3 million in stimulus funds are heading for ...

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME TO CLIMATE CHANGE EFFORTS

Cat.: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Free Agency, Global Warming, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), State and Local Government, Tennessee Valley Authority
22. September 2009
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The stars might be aligning for a real national effort to limit how America heats up the globe, to our own and others' detriment. President Obama spoke today at the UN about a more energetic U.S. approach, the EPA has a new carbon tracking system, the Congress ...

THE CUTTING EDGE OF LAND USE IN FLORIDA

Cat.: Dept. of the Interior, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Free Agency, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY)
01. September 2009
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It may be that Florida is shrinking (the state is experiencing out-migration for the first time in decades) but it's likely to come back. And like California and other large states, Florida has the opportunity to be a leader and trendsetter in many areas of government. Given ...

NO LAUGHING MATTER

Cat.: Environment, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
28. August 2009
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Cornelia Dean of the New York Times examines worrying news from NOAA about the danger that nitrous oxide poses to the ozone layer.

PREVENTIVE JOURNALISM: CHINA’S WEALTH AFFECTING YOUR HEALTH

Cat.: Environment, Free Agency, Preventive Journalism
12. August 2009
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Keith Bradsher of the New York Times went to Shenzhen, China (pop. 14 million) to see what happens to that city's trash.  China has now overtaken the U.S., Bradsher reports, as "the world's largest producer of household garbage."  This prize may still be shared with the rest of the world, ...

GIMBY UPDATE: MOUNTAIN STATE TRACKS STIMULUS FUNDS

Cat.: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Environment, Free Agency, Government in My Backyard (GIMBY), State and Local Government
09. April 2009
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Kate Long of the West Virginia Gazette is keeping an eye on what the Mountain State -- one of the nation's less prosperous in terms of GDP and household income -- stands to gain from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  It looks like about $1.8 billion, and ...

HIGH COURT: FISH DON’T HAVE ANY FEELINGS…OR MUCH ECONOMIC VALUE

Cat.: Beltway Outsider, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency
02. April 2009
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A Supreme Court ruling yesterday could severely complicate what regulations the Environmental Protection Agency can issue. Adam Liptak of the New York Times reports that the court ruled that EPA should use economic cost-benefit analysis when regulating coal-fired power plants under ...