Recipe For Poison Stew
Start with 24 superfund toxic waste sites. Stir in 8,000,000 gallons of spilled oil. Add in a few million tons of human waste and household chemicals, and finish with a pinch of toxic bacteria to give...
View ArticleHarriet Miers and the $624,000 Question
I've previously written about the strange fact of Harriet Miers extremely low net worth (possibly as little as $220,000 by some accounts). This, in the context of Kos recent post noting her sweetheart...
View ArticleThe Republican Myth of "Personal Responsibility"
I fly several times a month for work and I chat up every person I can about politics (nothing like having a captive audience for 3 1/2 hours). I can't count the number of times I've sat on planes next...
View ArticleTaxpayers will pay $1.2b for Superfund site pollution cleanup in '06: New...
There's a bumper sticker that says, "DO NOT FLUSH: Be like the mining industry and have someone else clean up your waste." Nowhere is this slogan better exemplified than the Superfund program. A new...
View ArticleFord's Toxic Dumping on the Poor
What started off with a Cheers and Jeers yesterday ended with a tale of toxic dumping, corporate irresponsibility, the mob, and a corrupt or inept EPA. I clicked on BiPM's jeers link to the 10 Worst...
View ArticleENVIRONMENTAL NEWS TO USE
a.k.a. More Inconvenient Truths. * Supervisors to consider ban of certain plastics. San Francisco supervisors are set to adopt the nation's first ban on some chemicals in plastic baby bottles,...
View ArticleENVIRONMENTAL NEWS and a few inconvenient truths
The dirty secret of China's economy. China's rapid growth has only worsened its environmental problems, and the government expects pollution to quadruple by 2020. Business Week.Wells may tap into...
View ArticleNow Everyone's Getting Interested in Superfund
This is cross-posted from my environmental health blog, Impact Analysis, and provides an overview following a recent news story concerning the Superfund program. This is a work in progress, and I link...
View ArticleINCONVENIENT BEING GREEN
a.k.a. ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS...to use...Study links air pollutants with autism. Children with autism disorders in the San Francisco Bay Area were 50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high...
View ArticleSuperfund, made personal
On June 30th, 1992 a Burlington Northern train derailed while crossing a bridge over the Nemadji River near Superior Wisconsin. A tank of benzene ruptured and over 40,000 people were evacuated. To...
View ArticleRepublicans get Behind Bullshit Legislation. Literally. Honest-to-God.
I couldn't dream this up if I tried. According to CattleNetwork.Com, my soon-to-be-former House Rep is the latest person to have signed on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 4341. What is H.R. 4341? It's an...
View ArticleZogby Thinks the Environment is an issue to run on
Listen to the interview on EcoTalk.Nearly three of every four - 74% - are more convinced today that global warming is a reality than they were two years ago, the survey shows. Dramatically, it is a...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Superfund
Our society has often drawn the line between what is good for the environment and what is good for people. This is, however, a false dichotomy. I grew up in Cass Lake, Minnesota; a small town far...
View ArticleAnother Obama Friday Night Fail
You can say that you are a friend of the environment all you want. But what have you done about it? Truly.President Barack Obama has just nominated Clinton retread I.S. Moreno to be DOJ's top enviro...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Issue 215
This week my attention was dominated by a long-expected fiasco with a local club I am involved with. Goes to show even Democrats can be seriously messed up. Then again, this same supposedly "reform"...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Issue 216
Obama's nomination of Sotomayor and the court decision in California regarding the Hate Amendment are big news this week. I address the Sotomayor nomination directly, and I address Prop 8 in some of my...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Issue 217
Busy week! And I may have to soon take time off from the newsletter. If not before then, I will be at a conference and on vacation in California at the end of June/beginning of July, so may well take...
View ArticleProgressive Democrat Issue 219
Back from a nice vacation. If you like, you can read about it here and see a few pictures of Jacob here.Quite a lot going on, isn't there? Republicans (Sanford and Ensign) showing that their...
View ArticleThe ever-resourceful scientists: Learning from "the bad"
This is inspired by a post from Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse a couple weeks back, and I hope in its own small way it complements the myriad of great posts about science issues on DailyKos.The theme...
View ArticleEarth Day at one small toxic dump
With media attention naturally focused on the huge issues, it is easy to miss the extent to which the Obama administration has changed the function of government in positive directions. On a day like...
View ArticleBP Oil Spill: Reforming the Polluter Pays Model
The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill highlights the debate over the correct way to deal with environmental and other externalities. Under current law, polluters are seldom required to pick up the full cost...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, Feb. 18, 2011
Hi, all. Today's report features:• West Wing Week: This week, President Obama released his federal budget, discussing the need to take responsibility for our deficits while investing in education, to...
View ArticleAnother, Older Mess: Hanford Nuclear Reservation
Crossposted from ePluribus Media.The ongoing nuclear issues in Japan have sparked renewed domestic concerns about our own nuclear power plants and their relative safety. One site, in particular,...
View ArticleThe More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same. The Relevance of Rachel...
I am an avid reader, but I can only read so many books a year. And sometimes, I am just too busy, or tired. I have kids now and that means less reading, for pleasure or personal research.I hit the used...
View ArticleCorporate Chemical Spills
From The Progressive PopulistOn Jan. 9, the US House of Representatives passed HR 2279, which would gut the nation’s hazardous waste regulations. This bill, called the Reducing Excessive Deadline...
View ArticleMy neighborhood Superfund site
I live in the scenic Hudson Valley in the city of Beacon, NY, just a little over 60 miles north of New York City, and we are blessed here to be surrounded by much natural beauty, as well as by...
View ArticleReport: Alabama Sen. Luther Strange implicated in bribe offer made to quash a...
Luther “Big Luther” Strange hasn’t been Alabama’s junior senator very long. And if the report in the Alabama Political Reporter by reporter Josh Moon is true, he won’t be one for much longer. State...
View ArticleICYMI - How Republican Policies Have Made Harvey Worse, With More To Come for...
With all the horrors following in the wake of Harvey, it would be remiss to fail to mention that the disaster has been amplified not just by climate change, but by decades of Republican policies in the...
View ArticleThe Texas Time Bomb has Detonated: Business Friendly = People Expendable.
Must read from Charles P. Pierce. The Chemical Plant Explosion in Texas Is Not an Accident. It's the Result of Specific Choices - The perils of deregulation.Continuing from yesterday’s Bill of...
View ArticleHead of EPA Under Bush Slams Pruitt's Turning Agency Into A Climate Denial...
Christine Todd Whitman headed the Environmental Protection Agency during the George W. Bush Administration, known as one of the most anti-environment Presidencies in memory. While Whitman’s faults were...
View ArticleSuperfund sites at great risk from hurricanes, but EPA chief Pruitt is their...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, we learned that Harris County, Texas, where Houston is located, is home to 13 abandoned industrial sites so populated by toxic waste that over the years they’ve...
View ArticlePuerto Rico's governor releases schedule to restore power, unfortunately it...
With 85 percent of Puerto Rico still without power and current projections showing only 30 percent up and running by November 1, the plan put forward by Governor Ricardo Rossellóseems ambitious.Puerto...
View ArticleScott Pruitt admits new Superfund site rules were pulled entirely from his...
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt takes secrecy to utterly ridiculous lengths, with a cone of silence in his office, three separate security systems inside the EPA offices, and a private army of at least...
View ArticleBanned from Banking for Life? No prob. Come work at the EPA!
This story just broke over at the intercept and I think it is worth some attention.Banned From The Banking Industry For Life, A Scott Pruitt Friend Finds A New Home At The Epa by Sharon LernerA close...
View ArticleMigrant kids likely to be exposed to chemicals at military bases where gov't...
Back in June, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced that two military bases had been chosen to house migrants who enter the United States without the required paperwork. The Pentagon said then that it...
View Article5 Things: Lost Billions, Money Pits, Offshore Wind, Subsidies, E-car Subsidies
Billions Lost Three billion birds gone since 1970. This is the result from the latest comprehensive review of North American birds. It’s a startling number that suggests that the reduction of habitat...
View Article5 Things: 35 Year Superfund Site, Fracking, Love Toxins, Trust the Plastics,...
Decades of DyingAnaconda, Montana was never intended to be a garden spot. It was conceived as a company town and for decades a massive copper smelter operation was the sole purpose for the town. Of...
View ArticleThe War Over Responses to Climate Change: The GAO Stands with us against the...
In a not-quite-new but little noticed battle on climate change (November), the Government Accountability Office took on the EPA regarding serious threats to superfund sites from major weather events...
View ArticleThe Radical Left
Let me start off by saying that I am on team Warren (as a supporter), but this is not an argument for her candidacy. My Mom doesn’t like her, she thinks Warren is too far to the left. That’s what...
View ArticleSen. Udall uses gov't report of 1000s of polluting mine sites to push reform...
Nearly a century and a half ago, as part of Washington’s effort to encourage settlement in the West, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the General Mining Act of 1872. This granted individuals (and...
View ArticleMap shows where American industries pump the most cancer-causing chemicals in...
Over the years, environmental racism has been the subject of hundreds of articles at Daily Kos. Here’s much-missed Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse taking about “eco white privilege” back in 2010,...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Superfund sites, Supreme Court pressure, War...
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, January 23, 2022349th Weekly EditionThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics...
View ArticleFinally, a BP subsidiary will finish cleaning up the former smelting site it...
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department announced on Friday that the Atlantic Richfield Company (AR) agreed to finish cleaning up the site of a former copper smelting site that...
View ArticleWhy Do I Love Jimmy Carter so Much? He's an Amazing Role Model For Us All!
I remember Jimmy Carter's first and very positive presidential campaign like it was yesterday. His goodness and genuineness is an inspiration to us all!Jimmy Carter is my most favorite President of my...
View ArticleNew York Climate Change Super-Fund Bill
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Chair of the New York Assembly Codes Committee, and State Senator Liz Krueger, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, recently reintroduced a Climate Change Superfund Act...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Ghost town story, Durham lead problems, Asheville...
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREADSunday, August 13th, 2023WEEKLY EDITION #429This blog is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. This weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
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