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online.wsj.com - 5/14/2009
EPA chief says CO2 finding may not 'mean regulation.'
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Wall Street Journal: The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a public health danger won't necessarily lead to government regulation of emissions, an apparent about-face for the Obama administration. The ...
The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited
e360.yale.edu - 5/12/2009
The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited
— e360.yale.edu — Over the past two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has obliterated or severely damaged more than... a million acres of forest and buried more than 1,000 miles of streams. Now, the Obama administration is showing signs it plans to crack ... (more) The Razing of Appalachia: Mountaintop Removal Revisited

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huffingtonpost.com - 5/15/2009
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits for Appalachia
— huffingtonpost.com — As American citizens in Mingo County and other areas of the flood-stricken Kentucky and West Virginia coalfields... continue to dig themselves out of the muck, indefatigable Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward is reporting on his Coal Tattoo blog that ... (more) Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: EPA Clears Waterboarding Permits ...

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whitehouse.gov - 5/12/2009
OMB - Blog Post - Clearing the Air
— whitehouse.gov — Media reports today are suggesting that OMB has found fault with EPA s proposed finding that emissions... of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that endangers public health and welfare. Any reports suggesting that OMB was ... (more) OMB - Blog Post - Clearing the Air

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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:  The OMB-EPA Kerfuffle That Wasn't

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The OMB-EPA Kerfuffle That Wasn't
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... , as dished out by Dow Jones reporter Ian Talley, had all the elements of a hot scoop: internal dissension, a scathing government memo hinting at incompetence and impropriety, and a seeming reversal of one of the administration’s core positions. Eagerly picked up by the press and quickly circulated among the blogosphere, it provided welcome fodder for conservative critics of the president intent on sinking his GHG mitigation policies. ...

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