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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:38:06 +0000

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Energy Priorities found this 11 days ago on epa.gov

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EPA Tests Porous Pavement, Greener Gardens

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:24:37 +0000

rainylot As stormwater runoff endangers the world’s water supply, the EPA is busy planting gardens and repaving its parking lots. Don’t worry — it’s not just an attempt to beautify the agency’s field offices in Edison, New Jersey. The renovations are being done in the name of science, with a ...

Ramsay Home found this 4 days ago on wired.com

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GOP Boycotts Senate Panel On Climate Change

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:30:18 +0000

National Public Radio: MICHELE NORRIS, host: And over in the Senate, a feud over climate change legislation prompted a rare move by Republicans. They boycotted the final drafting of a major bill on global warming. Two Republicans were needed for a quorum in the Environment and Public Works ...

unEARTHED: the Earthjustice Blog found this 3 days ago on npr.org

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Day of Action to End Mountaintop Removal (video)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:42:58 +0000

On October 30th, actions were held across the US to protest the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. In Washington, DC 13 people occupied the EPA hea...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 7 days ago on youtube.com

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TX, NY and MD Schools Top EPA’s Green Power Schools Ranking

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:00:00 +0000

Schools in New York, Texas and Maryland top the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inaugural ranking of the top 20 primary and secondary schools nationwide that use the most power from renewable energy sources. The top EPA Green Power Partner schools are buying nearly 113 million ...

EcoTech Daily found this 8 days ago on environmentalleader.com

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Boxer Invites EPA In for Questions About Climate Bill

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:17:54 +0000

Hoping to avert a partisan meltdown, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) yesterday offered an olive branch to Republicans who are planning to boycott today's markup of a sweeping global warming bill. Boxer still plans to begin the markup at 9 a.m. with opening ...

Ramsay Home found this 4 days ago on nytimes.com

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Urgent Action: Blasting Has Started on Coal River Mountain and YOU CAN STOP IT

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:16:26 +0000

Coal River Mountain in West Virginia is being dynamited, and the Coal River Valley community needs your help. Earlier this week, RAN staff heard from allies in the coalfields that a subsidiary of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Appalachia, has resumed mountaintop removal ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 9 days ago on understory.ran.org

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Cow Burps OK: House, Senate Block EPA From Regulating Livestock Emissions

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:45:14 +0000

Farmers can breath a little easier now — cows can burp and fart without fear of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating their methane emissions. You may remember the “cow tax” rumors that floated around late last year and caused an uproar among farmers and ranchers worried the EPA planned ...

Ramsay Home found this 9 days ago on industry.bnet.com

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Key stakeholders share ideas about TSCA reform

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:00:00 +0000

The morning session of today’s historic conference exploring routes to federal chemical policy reform made clear that there is now a strong consensus among key stakeholders – industry, the EPA and the White House, the environmental health community – on the need to reform the Toxic ...

Enviroblog found this 5 days ago on ewg.org

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Suit to Air Internal EPA Protests on Radiation Exposure Plan

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:50:37 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2009 PEER The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not come clean on its plan to dramatically raise permissible radioactive release levels, according to a lawsuit filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The new draft ...

Ramsay Home found this 10 days ago on commondreams.org

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Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Sit-ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across Nation: Coal River Mtn Emergency (PHOTOS)

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:14:59 +0000

BREAKING NEWS: The Coalfield Uprising is spreading across the nation. As millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain communities, including the clean energy landmark of Coal River Mountain, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins, die-ins, protests, and a haunting "Day of the Dead" funeral procession and sit-in in the courtyard of the Washington, DC headquarters of the Environmental Protection ...

Ramsay Home found this 8 days ago on huffingtonpost.com

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EPA to Regulate Mercury Emissions, May Tag Coal Ash ‘Toxic’

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:16:48 +0000

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering labeling coal ash as toxic waste, while the agency moves to regulate mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a 230-page report on coal ash that comes 10 months after a ...

Ramsay Home found this 8 days ago on environmentalleader.com

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Rainforest Action Network: End Mountaintop Removal Day of Action, October 30, 2009

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:55:39 +0000

Obama's EPA has made some good first steps, but they need to continue getting our loud and clear message- End Mountaintop Removal! They ultimately have the power to veto the permits that allow mountaintop removal to exist. JPMorgan Chase is now the largest funder of mountaintop removal coal ...

Grist - the Latest from Grist found this 13 days ago on ran.org

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Take Action: Ask EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Intervene at Coal River Mountain

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:29:08 +0000

Mountaintop removal blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain. These operations are happening only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above Pettus, WV. If the dam bursts, nearly a thousand people in the Coal ...

The Understory : Understory.RAN.org found this 11 days ago on ga3.org

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End Mountaintop Removal Day of Action, October 30, 2009

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:55:39 +0000

Join Mountain Justice, Energy Justice Network and Rainforest Action Network as We Mobilize to End Mountaintop Removal. SIGN UP: http://ran.org/endmtrdoa WHAT: Actions at the EPA and across the country calling for an end to mountaintop removal WHEN: Friday, Oct. 30 WHERE: Your Town, USA ...

Grist - the Latest from Grist found this 13 days ago on understory.ran.org

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DC Mountaintop Removal Protest Heats Up

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:23:10 +0000

Across Country Coalition of Environmental Groups Call for EPA to Stop Recent Blasting on Coal River Mountain, WV; Site of Proposed Wind Farm More than Fifty Stage Sit-In and Rally at EPA Headquarters in DC Hundreds participated today with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and ...

It's Getting Hot In Here found this 8 days ago on understory.ran.org

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