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Industry generates pollution. A lot of pollution. In 2006, it emitted an estimated 3.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. These aren’t just fuzzy numbers we’re talking about; those 3.4 metric tons account for 57 percent of America’s total carbon dioxide emissions.
Numbers startling you a bit? They startled Congress, too, [...]
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Meet Trevor. He works with Public Citizen’s Texas Office, which is active in the fight against new coal-fired power plants. He’s got an important message for Bank of America and CitiBank, two of the financial giants that are trying to fund new coal-fired power plants. Here’s the deal: Coal is dirty. It’s yesterday’s technology. [...]
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Dominion energy company says it’s going to build one of the “cleanest” coal-fired power plants in the nation in southwest Viriginia, yet, when the State Corporate Commission voted to approve the plant, it designated it a “conventional coal facility,” which makes us wonder who Dominion is trying to fool? With no plan to capture and [...]
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At the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, a global ministerial-level gathering held in early March in Washington, D.C., President Bush stated “We’ve got to get off oil. … [O]ur dependence on fossil fuels like oil presents a challenge to our environment. When we burn fossil fuels we release greenhouse gases. The concentration of greenhouse gases [...]
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I’m sure there’s more to come on how Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson and the Bush administration have conspired to ignore a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that told the EPA to start doing something about greenhouse gas emissions. There’s enough evidence already to call for Johnson’s firing. Paul Kiel writes about Johnson on the [...]
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It was one of the worst cases of industrial pollution ever — the asbestos contamination of Libby, Montana. Now, the company responsible, Maryland-based W.R. Grace, will pay the biggest fine in the history of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund cleanup program. Allison Connolly writes about it in the Baltimore Sun. The asbestos contamination from a [...]
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Posted in Environment, Trade, tagged green economy, Trade on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
From Todd Tucker @ Eyes on Trade: Once in a rare while, an idea actually takes the nation by storm. It may not necessarily be a new idea, but it is articulated in a new and exciting way that captures the political imagination. Such an idea is the “green jobs” agenda, which attempts to conceive [...]
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From BushSecrecy.Org: Same story, different cast: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is blocking the release of a report that studies environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states. The study, originally set for release last July, warns that more than nine million people living in more than two dozen “areas of concern” – including [...]
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