Gingrich Ad Uses GOP, Coal Money To Slam Climate Bill
"As the House barrels toward a vote on climate and energy legislation, a group headed by a prominent Republican is launching a national campaign aimed at scuttling the bill."
06/24/2009
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Environmental Politics
Species-Protection Law Overhaul Sits In Senate
By ALLISON A. FREEMAN
Congress is considering a rewrite of the nation's law overseeing the protection of imperiled plants and wildlife – in a move that could make sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act for the first time since it was put into law over 30 years ago.
The House of Representatives has already passed its overhaul of the act, which would throw out many of the existing mandatory requirements in favor of voluntary measures.
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"Environmentalists Baffled by Obama's Strategy"
"The administration is defending in court environmental measures that the president once vowed to roll back. Officials say it is part of a long-term plan, but critics see it as backpedaling."
Source: LA Times, 06/23/2009
"New York Sign Counts Global Greenhouse Gases"
"Deutsche Bank lit a seven-storey-high sign in the middle of Manhattan on Thursday that counts the total amount of greenhouse gases trapped in the Earth's atmosphere."
Source: Reuters, 06/19/2009
Vilsack Aide Named to FERC
"John Norris, a veteran Iowa political aide who has been chief of staff for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, was nominated Wednesday by President Barack Obama to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission."
Source: Des Moines Register, 06/17/2009
"Obama Mountaintop Plan Disappoints Appalachian Advocates"
"The Obama administration's new interagency plan to regulate mountaintop removal coal mining met with mixed reactions from Appalachian community advocates."
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
CT AG: "Chemical Industry Tried To Kill Legislation"
"The chemical industry used 'confusion and concealment' and possibly violated Connecticut law in its unsuccessful attempt to kill legislation banning the use of bisphenol-A in baby bottles and infant food jars, [CT] Attorney General Richard Blumenthal charged Monday."
Source: CT Post, 06/16/2009
"EPA Chemical Database Rules a Political Hazard, Critics Say"
"Obama has invited politics into scientific task to update the catalog and assess the danger of industrial chemicals, some say."
Source: LA Times, 06/16/2009
Book Shelf, Book 4- The Republican War on Science
THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE
By Chris Mooney
Basic Books, $24.95
Reviewed by STUART LEAVENWORTH
Here's a news flash: President George Bush and some of his minions have targeted scientists who don't share their agenda. They have intimidated certain government researchers, reassigned those who cause trouble for key constituencies and discouraged an entire generation of biologists, climatologists and other professionals from ever working on the federal payroll.
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