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Climate Activist Ted Glick Sentenced

Posted in Coal, Energy, Global Warming, green jobs, Renewables, tagged activist, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, climate change, Coal, Glick, Global Warming, green jobs, hart senate, Public Citizen, sentence, sentenced, Ted Glick on July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Ted Glick, policy director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network was just sentenced for his demonstration on September 8. I am on one year’s probation, I need to pay an $1100 fine, I need to do 40 hours of community service in D.C. and if I’m arrested over the next year I automatically go to [...]

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Who Watches the Watchmen? YOU DO- read your Representatives’ personal financial disclosure!

Posted in Good Government, tagged bill white, personal financial disclosures, Rick Perry, Texas, texas tribune, Todd Staples on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Texas Tribune has just published their list of Texas Personal Financial Statements: 2009, in which you can search for the personal financial statements of over 3,000 Texas officials and political candidates. Why not look up your representative or senator, your favorite TCEQ commissioner, the governor, perhaps? You will be able to see the source of [...]

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New EPA Air Quality rule will protect lives by cutting emissions from coal-fired power plants

Posted in Air Quality, Coal, Energy, tagged Air Quality, climate change, Coal, coal fired power plant, EPA, NAAQS on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In a breaking story from the AP, we learn that the air pollution rules first proposed under George W. Bush’s EPA are moving forward. The Environmental Protection Agency said the new rules would cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 71 percent from 2005 levels by 2014 and nitrogen oxide emissions by 52 percent in the same [...]

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