by Dave Johnson | Jul 26, 2013 | Climate
House Republicans just passed a bill to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of authority to regulate coal ash. Maybe they plan to "save money" by putting it in school lunches? In 2008, a levee broke on a coal ash impoundment in Tennessee, spilling more than 5...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 23, 2013 | Climate, Making it in America
"Going down to Mississippi wages does not signal a bright future for American economy." - Harold Meyerson President Obama campaigned with a promise to add 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term. So far only 13,000 have been added. The AAMeter illulstrates...
by Bill Scher | Jun 25, 2013 | Climate
The centerpiece of President Obama's climate strategy is a planned package of Environmental Protection Agency rules that would cap carbon on all existing and future power plants, the biggest source of our greenhouse gas emissions. Such rules are essential to avert a...
by Bill Scher | Jun 19, 2013 | Climate
Before the end of the Barack Obama presidency, the EPA will place a cap on carbon pollution from all power plants. This is no longer a mystery. This is happening. And there's nothing Republicans in Congress can do about it. Though if you've been paying close...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 9, 2013 | Climate
Right-wing obstructionism reached another low today when Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee would not even show up to vote today on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The spectacle was...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 30, 2013 | Climate
You are not safe. Not at work. Not at home in your bed. The biggest threat is not terrorism. It’s corporate negligence leading to a blast or collapse or release of toxic chemicals. Terrorism killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11. But in the dozen years since then, terrorists...
