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• Giuliani Politicizing 9/11 for Partisan Gain

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  In a vile new low, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has said he expects bringing the accused 9/11 mastermind to justice will directly cause new terror attacks on New York. Mr. Giuliani is now seeking to use the memory of 9/11 and the very real and lasting trauma felt by so many people, to sow fear and provoke a ...
  1 week ago

• For the Chemical Industry, Too Much is Never Enough

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
   In Wednesdays Washington Post, Lyndsey Layton reported on a recent study examining the impact of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), on the reproductive systems of human males (as the story notes, previous studies have been of mice and rats). The study, which was funded by the federal governments National Institute ...
  2 weeks ago

• Get Rid of the Smoke: The NYS Senate Should Pass S.1145-A on Monday

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  Ever wonder why some buildings in New York have a plume of black smoke coming out of their smokestacks?  That soot comes from #2 heating oil, a close cousin of diesel fuel.  Its similar to the diesel fuel in New Yorks buses and trucks, except it can contain more than 650 times as much sulfur.  Its dirty stuff, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Household Gas Bills to FALL by 10% under Clean Car Climate Bill

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  While the oil lobby continues its gas attack on climate legislation, a recent government study suggests that accelerating CAFE standards under the Waxman-Markey climate bill would actually lower our gas bills by more than 10% over the next two decades (see graph below):   Under the EIAs Accelerated CAFE Case ...
  2 weeks ago

• Murder Survivors Speak in their Own Words

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  In the wake of the execution of John A. Muhammad for a 2002 cross-country murder spree, the Washington Post reports on murder victims relatives who have witnessed the execution of the person who killed their family members: The same note...
  2 weeks ago

• The Canary in the Coal Mine is Screaming, But Is Anybody Listening? Highway Pollution and its Devastating Impacts on Local Communities

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  A new study about the staggering impacts of highway and ship pollution was released by a team of scientists and academics, including some of the most pioneering researchers on issues of health related impacts from degraded air quality.  The study provides a localized look at the impacts of air pollution, especially ...
  2 weeks ago

• German Joys Fundraising Appeal: Gulf Regional Advocacy Center

  
  German Joys — Authority: 425
  We interrupt this blog for some naked fundraising. Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of hosting an impromptu speech by Danalynn Recer, Executive Director of the Gulf Regional Advocacy Center (GRACE), in Houston, Texas. Recer started GRACE in 2002, bringing...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Vote Update: Cao & Hill Favor Constituents Over Health Lobby

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Last night, every Republican but one voted against the House of Representatives’ monumental healthcare reform package. Anh Joseph Cao has said he came to understand the need to vote to pass the sweeping healthcare reform program, after listening to the concerns of constituents desperate to find a way to secure ...
  3 weeks ago

• House Passes Health Bill 220 to 215

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  At 10:59 pm Saturday evening, a 15-minute vote was called. Members of the House were then to vote yea or nay by electronic device. By 11:01 pm, the vote was 197 to 184 and moving quickly. The vote tally will not be final until the Speaker drops the gavel to close the vote. By 11:03 pm, 36 Democrats had voted against ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Whole Enchilada - A Summary of the Water Bills

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  Here is an excellent summary of the water reform package passed by the state legislature on Nov. 4, as well as a summary of the water bond – with links to the final language.  My colleagues and I will be writing about each of the reform bills in the coming week.  NRDC took no position on the bond.  The ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Leadership and the Water Package

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC Barry Nelson's Blog — Authority: 100
  A great deal has been written about the substance of the water reform bills that was passed by the legislature in the wee hours Wednesday.  Here’s  NRDC’s statement on the three key bills.  And here’s a thoughtful editorial from the Los Angeles Times this morning.  I’ll write more about the substance ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Great Environmental Steward

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC Peter Lehner's Blog — Authority: 93
  President Obama and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today appointed Judith Enck as the head of EPAs key region two office, the office that handles environmental issues in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and seven Tribal Nations. I worked closely with Judith for eight years at the New York ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bluedogs Have Made Health Reform More Expensive

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Conservative Democrats in the House of Representatives have fought hard to make the public option, and therefore healthcare reform broadly, both less effective and more expensive. How and why they did so is puzzling: while claiming they wanted to contain costs, they went about attacking the most salient cost-cutting ...
  3 weeks ago

• Off to Cleveland Today to Testify for Great Lakes and Oceans

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  Im off to Cleveland this morning to testify at the Great Lakes regional meeting of the National Ocean Policy Task Force.  As a native Ohioan, I am excited to return to my home state and take this important opportunity to speak in favor of a national policy that the Obama Administration is creating to ensure ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rights Contracts Seek to Control Distribution “Across the Universe” (video)

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity”. ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Wheels of the Clean Energy Economy

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  In a previous post , I asked why we dont consider the federal transportation bill a major energy bill. Leaving that question aside, on Friday, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced a bill that couldnt be mistaken for anything else: the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). As much as we ...
  4 weeks ago

• Departing LAPD Chief Warns Against Using Local Cops Against Illegal Immigrants

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The departing chief of the Los Angeles Police Department jumped into the fray today over the controversial 287(g) program in the pages of the Los Angeles Times. Opening with a story about an undocumented homeless immigrant who gave the LAPD an important tip that helped that helped them crack the case of a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Investor’s Business Daily Misleads on Polar Bears

  
  Switchboard, from NRDC — Authority: 610
  Investor’s Business Daily just published a foolish editorial about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services recent proposal to designate over 200,000 square miles of Alaskan coast and sea ice as “critical habitat” for the State’s beleaguered polar bear population.  The editorial doesn’t contain much in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reform Watch: Gay Rights Protections

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  The push to ensure full civil rights equality for gays marked a major milestone last week with the passage of the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Though Republicans opposed the measure so aggressively they voted in large numbers against funding the national defense in order to deny the extension of federal ...
  4 weeks ago

• Reform Watch: Healthcare, Education, Nuclear Non-proliferation & Military Spending

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 501
  Healthcare Reform Two Senate Democrats have pledged not to aid Republicans in blocking a full Senate vote in healthcare reform legislation. That moves the Democratic majority closer to the 60 votes needed to avoid a filibuster and bring the bill to a floor vote that will require only 50 votes plus one. This means ...
  4 weeks ago

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