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• November 9, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  November 9,  2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber .  If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every ...
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• Michigan loses millions by paying companies to comply with enviro laws

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  General Motors is one of many companies in Michigan using state tax breaks to comply with environmental laws. (Creative Commons photo by Ahren D via Flickr) Some of Michigan’s largest polluting corporations are receiving millions in tax breaks for installing environmental control equipment that is required under ...
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• Dr. Al Armendariz named Region 6 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

  
  TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas — Authority: 550
  Environmental Groups Applaud EPA Choice New Regional Administrator could signal change in direction for polluted state DALLAS – Environmental advocates across several states are applauding the Obama Administration’s choice of Dr. Al Armendariz to lead Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Agency, which ...
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• GOP Moderates Write to EPA Administrator Jackson Requesting Full Economic Modeling of Kerry-Boxer

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 518
  Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones : What is important is both the public appearance by Graham and the emergence of Lieberman as the third wingman. In his remarks, Graham seemed to distance himself from the Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee that are boycotting the markup of the Kerry-Boxer ...
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• Friends of the Earth Statement on EPW Passage of Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Bill

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 518
  Friends of the Earth : “It is extremely disconcerting to hear scientists speak about the level of action needed to prevent radical and dangerous climate destabilization, and then to see how far short even one of the most environmentally friendly committees in Congress has fallen. “While the bill reported out of ...
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• After eight years of nothing, the EPA is finally doing their job

  
  theCLog — Authority: 489
  Amen, Sister Jackson. Can I get a hell yeah? Long quiescent under President George W. Bush, the agency is churning out initiatives and regulations at a pace that pleases its friends in the environmental movement and frightens many in the business community. In the past eight months, the EPA has proposed eight major ...
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• UN Climate Chief Praises China, Says US Must Deliver Concrete 2020 Target

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 619
  Reporting from Barcelona, Spain The United States must deliver concrete mid-term greenhouse gas reduction targets by next month or it will destroy efforts to achieve a framework for a global climate change deal in Copenhagen, United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer said Monday as a week of international talks on ...
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• Bond, GOP won’t show for climate-change bill mark-up

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 624
  Sen. Bond WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s red pen will stay in his pocket during Tuesday’s mark-up of the sweeping cap-and-trade climate bill. That’s because Bond and his six fellow Republicans on the 19-member Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will boycott the mark-up…
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• November 2, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  November 2,  2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber .  If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every ...
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• Save the Clean Air Act in Five Simple Steps

  
  It's Getting Hot In Here — Authority: 598
  A couple of days ago, I myself and three other young people were in a meeting with one of Senator Jeff Merkley’s field staff in Portland, Oregon.  We were there to talk about the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, which Senator Merkley is already working to pass in the Senate Environment and ...
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• Third Day of Hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  Full Committee hearing entitled, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.” Thursday, October 29, 2009 09:30 AM EDT EPW Hearing Room – 406 Dirksen Majority Statements Minority Statements James M. Inhofe ...
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• Emission Characterization and Emission Inventories for the 21st ...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Emission inventories are the foundation of cost-effective air quality management strategies. A goal of the emissions community is to develop the ultimate emission inventory which would include all significant emissions from all sources, time periods and areas, with quantified uncertainties, and timely accessibility ...
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• EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions, May Tag Coal Ash ‘Toxic’

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling coal ash as toxic waste, while the agency moves to regulate mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a 230-page report on coal ash that comes 10 months after a spill of 1.1 billion ...
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• Idaho contractor fined by EPA over asbestos violations

  
  Mesothelioma News — Authority: 139
  Precision Demolition and Abatement of Boise, Idaho has been fined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for violating the federal Clean Air Act. During an EPA inspection of the contractor’s renovation project in October 2008, officials discovered that Precision had failed to inform the EPA of when the ...
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• Is the Left Now Wary of EPA’s Power?

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  Politico reports : In hearings before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee Tuesday, several moderate Democrats expressed concerns that the EPA is jumping the gun in mandating new curbs on greenhouse gas emissions across a slew of industries. … EPA estimates that 14,000 major polluters would need to ...
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• How Congress Threatens to Undermine the Clean Energy Future: The Clean Air Act

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 619
  The new Greenpeace report Business as Usual describes "five maximum points of danger" in the House and Senate climate bills. SolveClimate will be reposting each of those arguments over the course of the week, starting today with the threat to undermine the Clean Air Act. Dear Mr. President, On June 28, just after ...
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• October 26, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 116
  October 26,  2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week.  These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber .  If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every ...
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• EPA to Issue Strict Rules for U.S. Power Plant Air Toxics

  
  Climate of Our Future — Authority: 413
  Deadline of November 2011 for EPA rules to cut power plant toxic air pollution emissions October 23, 2009  Washington, DC – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to adopt rules reducing toxic air pollution from the nation’s coal- and oil-burning power plants, by November 2011, according to a ...
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• Naomi Oreskes: The lecture Lord Monckton slept through, which he hopes you will not see

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 498
  Here’s another example of where historians show their value in science debates. Naomi Oreskes delivered this lecture a few years ago on denialism in climate science.  Among other targets of her criticism-by-history is my old friend Robert Jastrow.  I think her history is correct, and her views on the Marshall ...
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• EPA Orders Review of Air Pollution at BP Refinery

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 620
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Indiana to re-examine several sources of air pollution at BP’s Whiting refinery in northwest Indiana, one of the largest sources of air pollution in the Chicago area, reports the Chicago Tribune. The results are due in 90 days.In response to a petition from ...
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