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News Roundup – Scary Yuletide Ghost of Christmas Future edition

Posted in Coal, Efficiency, Energy, Global Warming, Renewables, Toxics, tagged cap and trade, Christmas, Coal, Global Warming, natural gas, particulate matter, pickens plan, PM, soot on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The real question is, will we at Texas Vox run out of holiday references before tomorrow or not? Some scary, scary stuff out there in the past few days we wanted to show you, plus some extra holiday snark for all of you. Haven’t we been saying how bad coal is? Some families in Tennessee [...]

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Hayduke lives!

Posted in Energy, Global Warming, tagged Amy Goodman, Arches National Park, Bureau of Land Management, Civil Disobedience, Democracy Now!, Ed Abbey, Hayduke Lives, Monkeywrenching, National Parks Service, Oil and Gas Leases, Salt Lake Tribune, Tim DeChristopher on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Ed Abbey would be proud. At an auction held by the Bureau of Land Management for oil and gas leases on 149,000 acres of public land in Utah, a University of Utah student and environmental activist named Tim DeChristopher posed as a bidder and bought up 22,000 acres to keep it from industry clutches. Much [...]

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Senator Barbara Boxer vs. EPA Chief Stephen Johnson: Round 1!

Posted in Coal, Global Warming, tagged Attorney General, Barbara Boxer, boo-yah, Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, EPA, Michael Mukasey, Stephen Johnson on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Remember last week, when I was pissed off at EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson for making up last minute rules to get coal plants permitted? Today this anger is tempered by my love for Senate Environment and Public Works chair Barbara Boxer, who basically told Johnson he was CHEATING AND MAKING UP FAKE RULES. Boxer sent [...]

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Loophole, Closed!

Posted in Toxics, tagged Air Quality Standards, Air toxics, Loophole, Pollution Exemption, Texas, US Court of Appeals, Washington Post on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s a Christmas miracle! There’s some good news out there to brighten my day! A huge loophole in air pollution regulation has been closed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia! Reports the Washington Post: In a 2 to 1 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]

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