Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: How else to explain events such as this: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders BP to stop using a certain chemical dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico, and BP continues to use it anyway. Or this: because the world is disturbed by images of an oil-fouled sea and [...]
Tags: BP oil spill, chief justice john roberts, corporate control of government, corporations control our lives, EPA, exxon valdez case, genetically modified organisms, Mineral Management Service, monsanto, Tony Hayward
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 [...]
Tags: carbon emissions, clean air act, environmental protection agency, EPA, global warming, greenhouse gases, Lisa Jackson