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 ArticleEPA Enviro Facts - What do YOU live near?
Hi all.I moved to NJ for 4 months this winter and while there discovered a cool website on the EPA site...called Enviro Facts.You can plug in your zip code to find out about water quality, toxic...
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...
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