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[Global Warming Issues] Court strikes down US air pollution regulation: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that the EPA overstepped its authority by instituting the rule. It said the Clean Air Act did not give the EPA the authority to change pollution standards the way it did.
[Flopping Aces] The two faces of the AWG crowdThe tale of Desert Rock, the Navajos ...: I understand the dire economic conditions and high unemployment rates on the reservation and respect the Navajo leadership’s courage and commitment to bettering the lives of its citizens. While each sovereign may disagree or have concern regarding the other’s action, it should not pose a barrier to communicating and discussing those concerns on a government-to-government basis.
[Nevada Thunder] EPA Won’t Act on Emissions This Year: Several EPA officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that throughout the process, White House officials instructed the agency to change their calculations with the aim of reducing the “social cost of carbon,” a regulatory term that reflects the economic burdens stemming from greenhouse gas emissions.
[Green Canticle] White House Blocks Scientific Testimony on Global Warming: Environmentalists, Congressional Democrats, and officials in more than a dozen states have sought to prod the EPA to reach a decision on the matter, following a Supreme Court ruling last year that greenhouse gases are pollutants and can be regulated under EPA’s existing authority.
[420 ideas] Cheney deleted CDC testimony about effects on human health of ...: Burnett caught the attention of Bush administration insiders as a researcher at the Center for Regulatory Study, a joint effort by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, where he co-authored a number of reports on regulation including one criticizing a ban on using cell phones while driving and another criticizing the EPA regulation of arsenic as too expensive with limited benefits.
[Walash's Weblog] 2 Decisions Shut Door on Bush Clean-Air Steps: Johnson alluded to the difficulty of applying the Clean Air Act, designed for conventional pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, to greenhouse gases.
[Justmytruth's Weblog] Senator Boxer, Lieberman, Feinstein, Warner, Fleecing America: The majority of the 500 pages in the two bills set up the parameters for this money market scheme while gutting the EPA Clean Water Act’s water protections to allow commercial-scale injections of toxic chemicals underground (geosequestration). If these schemes were safe and worked these bills would not need to lower our Clean Water Act standards.
[Chrisy58's Weblog] White House in Climate Change ”˜Cover Up’: In October, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Gerberding’s draft testimony to Congress “did not comport” with science contained in an International Panel on Climate Change report and that “a number of agencies had some concerns with the draft.”
[TRAVLINROSE'S GYPSY JOURNAL] TOP EPA OFFICIAL'S SAYS CHENEY CENSORED HIS CONGRESSIONAL ...: he said at a news conference with Boxer, adding that he is focused on how the government will address climate change in response to a Supreme Court decision last year requiring the EPA to deal with rising carbon dioxide emissions. "I'm interested in helping inform the next administration to help make those decisions, while recognizing Congress could act to pass a better law."
[Global Warming is Real] Dick Cheney Interferes With Congressional Testimony on Climate Change: Until last month Burnett was the EPA deputy associate administrator and senior advisor on climate change, resigning in frustration over apparent White House influence over the EPA’s handling of the 2007 Supreme Court ruling that carbon .
[facilityblog from Today's Facility Manager: The First Facility Management Blog] WEB EXCLUSIVE: Recycling Fluorescent Lamps: This process requires the separation of the mercury waste from other compounds by a process called “retorting.” When recycling fluorescent bulbs, the entire bulb is crushed, the glass and metal end caps are removed from the waste, and the resulting residue is then processed by a series of heating cycles to produce elemental mercury with a purity of 99.99%.
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