Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: New Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson has reversed a decree by the outgoing Bush administration, saying the EPA will once again consider regulating carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants as a form of air pollution under the Clean Air Act (see this Wash. Post article). Keep in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Some news is just infuriating. As we have posted many times in the past, in the hunger for coal to feed our energy consumption, President Bush just cannot seem to get enough of blowing up, tearing up, ripping up, and contaminating Nature. And, as his presidency comes ever [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What an amazing week in this country — with more drama to come. Won’t it be interesting to see what the markets do on Monday. You feel the meltdown in the air, the comeuppance for these years of profligate spending and profit-making, all based on credit, meaning debt. [...]