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8 Ways the GOP is Trying to Dismantle Environmental Protections
When the GOP first released its budget outline a few weeks back, I noted the significant cuts it would make to the EPA -- cuts to the tune of 30% of its entire budget. It was an astonishing sum, a number intended to double
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Clean Air Act Will Save $2 Trillion & 230,000 Lives by 2020
... And cost an estimated $65 billion to implement. Do the math. Because we live in crazy times, the body charged with the task of ensuring Americans breathe clean air and drink clean water is under a heavily politicized
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Inside the New GOP-Run, Styrofoam-Filled Congressional Cafeteria (Photos)
Yesterday I reported that, in a political nose-thumbing to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, the GOP had ditched the biodegradable food packaging that they'd used for four years in the House cafeteria -- and were bringing back old school, trashy
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GOP Cancels Biodegradable Packaging, Brings Styrofoam Back
Okay, so it's not exactly earth-shattering green political news -- but it's still indicative of the new anti-environment attitude that's swept into the US House of Representatives. Four
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Growing Concern That Republicans' E-Verify Plan Would Deport U.S. Agriculture Along With Workers
If you aren't familiar with E-Verify, it's "an Internet-based system that allows businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States." Efforts to require businesses to use it are being waged at
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Amendments to GOP Budget Bill Seek to Prevent Coal Ash Regulation as Hazardous Waste, PCB Cleanup, and More
If you're reading TreeHugger, you're probably aware of the environmental and health problems with coal ash and the debate surrounding whether or not the EPA will decide to classify it as hazardous waste.
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Do the Powers that Be Really Want to Deny Another Galileo?
There's really no rational way a human can dispute the fact that the vast majority of the world's scientists believe that greenhouse gas emissions generated by man are warming the climate. It's one of the most
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Lisa P. Jackson's Tough Birthday Week
Tuesday was Environmental Protection Agency Administrator
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GOP Moves to Slash EPA's Budget
Okay, okay, we get it. House Republicans don't like the idea of trying to reign in pollution. I mean really don't like it. Many of them already claimed that climate change wasn't real on the
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Enforcing Clean Air Act Rules Will Create 1.5 Million Jobs, Study Says
Who wants clean air? How about 1.5 million jobs? I know someone who does ... America! Well, this fine nation of ours is in luck. According to a new study, enforcing the new Clean Air Act requirements would create a jobs
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Bush's EPA Told Him CO2 Should be Regulated, Was Overruled by Cheney
And I thought I'd never have to write another post about Bush again. Alas, here's yet another revelation perfectly befitting the post-office portrait emerging of our last president -- a man with perhaps the best
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Will Congress Stop Spending $860,000 Annually on Bottled Water?
According to Corporate Accountability International, the House of Representatives spends at least $860,000 on bottled water a year. That's almost $2,000 for each representative.
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US Not Ready to Drill in Arctic: Gulf Spill Response Leader
Thad Allen, the Rear Admiral of the US Coast Guard charged with heading up the BP spill response in the Gulf, has issued a frank warning about the perils of drilling in the Arctic. Simply put, we're not ready to
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83% of Americans Want a Clean Energy Bill Passed This Year
A new Gallup poll has revealed some pretty interesting stuff about what Americans want to see done this year, legislatin'-wise. Coming out on the very top was this little nugget: 83% of Americans want Congress to "pass an energy bill that would provide
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5 Leading US Health Groups Oppose Efforts to Block EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases
In case you hadn't heard, the chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, Fred Upton (R-MI) wants to scrap EPA plans to to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and other large industrial sources altogether. While on the face of it, Upton
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Fred Upton Met with Energy Lobbyists in Secret Before His About-Face on Carbon Regulation
Before Republican Michigan Rep. Fred Upton suddenly abandoned his stance that climate change is a "serious problem" to say instead that regulating carbon emissions would be an "unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions
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Reform Campaign Finance and the Rest Will Follow
If you could change only one law in America, what would it be? I know my answer: Campaign finance law. I would make every election publicly funded. I would make private or corporate campaign contributions
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Clean Energy Alone Does Not Equal Climate Action
When I wrote my reactions to Obama's State of the Union address last week, I mentioned how disappointing it was that he didn't take the chance to engage the American public on the issue of climate change. The
