climateprogress.org - 3/24/2009
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On the same day the EPA announced plans to regulate coal ash and leaked a document that the CO2 “ endangerment finding ” is coming April 16, some 4,000 gallons of coal ash escaped its confinement and began a desperate journey to pollute DC waters. Coincidence? I think not!
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yosemite.epa.gov - 3/24/2009
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Release date: 03/24/2009 Contact Information: Enesta Jones, 202-564-4355
/ 7873 / jones.enesta@epa.gov (Washington, D.C. – March 24,...
2009) The United States Environmental Protection Agency has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
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epa.gov - 3/23/2009
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blogs.wvgazette.com - 3/25/2009
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large_ljackson.JPG The National Mining Association blasted EPA for
“halting mining permits.” West Virginia Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito...
warned the Obama administration about not to “block mining permits.” Coalfield environmentalists praised the ...
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EPA Makes Landmark Finding: Global Warming Threatens Public Health and Welfare
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... process affecting much of the U.S. economy as well as the nation’s future environmental trajectory. The agency’s finding, which was sent to the White House Office of Management and Budget without fanfare on Friday, also reversed one of the Bush administration’s landmark decisions on climate change, and it indicated anew that President Obama’s appointees will push to address the issue of warming despite the potential political costs. You can read about the likely timetable here (” DC to coal: You are a big danger to public health. Coal to DC: Kiss my ash. “). The next steps, ...
EPA Stops Coal Companies From Destroying Hundreds of Mountaintops and Streams With High Explosives
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... ), 4,000 gallons of the toxic sludge mysteriously broke its barriers and spilled into the North Branch Potomac River . This was not the first, nor the biggest spill in recent memory (see ...
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