xnerg.blogspot.com - 10/27/2008
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coal's time bomb. every year, south carolina's power plants burn enough coal to fill 10 large football stadiums, leaving behind a stadium-size pile of toxic ash.- charleston post and courier reports of toxic spills spiking. rural counties struggle to respond to calls, and cleanup often is ...
environmental news sunday
xnerg.blogspot.com 12/28/2008 — news that mother nature probably would want you to know about. as interior turns. there's plenty in washington for the new administration to clean up, but perhaps the biggest messes can be found in one agency: the department of interior. over the ...
environmental news stories sunday
xnerg.blogspot.com 3/8/2009 — yeah...time yet again for those stories that seem to "conveniently" slip from the corporate media radar. oregon veteran disabled by iraq's agent orange. - the same oregon guard soldiers who went into iraq without adequate body armor or up-armored ...
Obama Environmental Team Emerging
openleft.com 12/11/2008 — Obama's environmental team is emerging . And, for once, there is a lot that I like. For starters, Steven Chu is going to be Secretary of Energy, after a possibility who I had earlier gushed over This also means that the Wall Street Journal was ...
Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections
mcclatchydc.com 11/7/2008 — WASHINGTON — In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia.
If it’s Sunday, it’s still conservative.
thinkprogress.org 11/16/2008 — In 2006, Media Matters conducted a study on Sunday political talk shows, finding that “Republicans and conservatives have been offered more opportunities to appear on the Sunday shows - in some cases, dramatically so.” From 2001 to 2005, ...
Whose bailout plan is best? | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org 12/4/2008 — The car companies have come back to D.C. begging for money. But this time they have put on the table serious restructuring plans. At first glance, Ford's plan [PDF] appears to me sounder than GM's plan [PDF]. I'm interested in your opinions. Assuming ...
Tennessee Environmental Disaster Update
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1/4/2009 — by hilzoy
From the NYT , a few days ago:
"In a single year, a coal-fired electric plant deposited more than 2.2 million pounds of toxic materials in a holding pond that failed last week, flooding 300 acres in East Tennessee, according to a 2007 ...
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