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Clean Air Watch
Clean Air Watch is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting clean and a safer climate chiefly through media education. The
Blog for Clean Air contains news and unique insights about breaking
developments in the clean-air world.
Website: http://www.blogforcleanair.blogspot.com/
Contact:
Frank O'Donnell
cleanairfrank@cleanairwatch.org
Why is US Senate delaying on ship pollution legislation?
June 20, 2008 10:30 AM - , Clean Air Watch
It’s understandable that there would be an aggressive Democratic response to the calls by President Bush and John McCain to drill off the coasts.
EPA dangles prospect of tougher lead standard, but hedges its bets
May 5, 2008 08:38 AM - , Clean Air Watch
Like a Kentucky Derby contender that came up lame, EPA Administrator Steve Johnson was a late scratch at his own press conference today to discuss a proposed tougher standard for lead concentrations in the air. As you may know, the lead standard hasn’t been updated since 1978. And we know now that virtually any level of lead in the air can get into the blood stream, leading to possible brain damage for children and other bad health effects. EPA is under a court order to issue a final new standard by September of this year.
Governors rally against dirty Bush ploy...and what's up with coal in California?
April 28, 2008 07:05 AM - , Clean Air Watch
Twelve governors (California, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Washington) have to congressional leaders and the President, protesting the disgusting move this week by the federal Department of Transportation, which is seeking to preempt these and other states from enforcing greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles.
House progressives stake out global warming principles
April 23, 2008 08:38 AM - , Clean Air Watch
Reps. Waxman, Markey, and Inslee have sent a dear colleague laying out principles for global warming legislation in a letter addressed to Speaker Pelosi and requesting Members to join them on the letter.
Clean Air Watch to car companies: stop fibbing, start making cleaner cars
April 22, 2008 08:13 AM - , Clean Air Watch
It’s a lovely Friday in our nation’s capital, but it’s being marred by the emissions of a new lobbying blitz by car companies and car dealers. They held a press briefing today. The target here is any attempt to reinstate the right of California and other states to set greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles. There they go again! The same companies that literally fought for decades against better fuel economy standards now claim new standards enacted by Congress are just peachy.
On the President's new climate "principles"
April 17, 2008 08:50 AM - , Clean Air Watch
These principles are almost laughable. The President is about 8 years behind the curve. (He himself endorsed the concept of power plant emission limits 8 years ago, only to disavow the idea once in office.) An initial and apparently more specific Bush trial balloon was shot down by key Congressional Republicans. These new comments appear to be little more than a thin rationale for a Parisian junket by some members of his administration. Perhaps the appropriate reaction should be “sacre bleu!” (though the Pope might find that inappropriate).
Report: Bush considers backing global warming plan
April 15, 2008 07:56 AM - , Clean Air Watch
It is probably an overstatement to characterize the conservative Washington Times newspaper as the Bush Administration’s Pravda, but the paper often has seemed a lot closer to the President than many other news organs, and even has been suspected of being a launching pad for trial balloons.
The noose tightens: Waxman subpoenas EPA documents over dirty decision
April 10, 2008 09:42 AM - , Clean Air Watch
The plot continues to thicken over the obviously White House-directed EPA decision to reject California’s greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles. Today, Rep. Henry Waxman issued a subpoena to compel EPA to provided “unredacted” copies of documents that have been withheld from Waxman’s oversight committee. See below.
Car companies lobby Congress to kill California global warming authority
April 9, 2008 09:07 AM - , Clean Air Watch
Yes, they are at it again. The car companies and car dealers are once again trying to kneecap California and other states by taking away their rights to set better global warming emission standards for motor vehicles. Yes, the Bush administration did reject California's bid, but EPA's attorneys believe California will prevail in court. Hence the new push by the car crowd to build a fire wall in Congress.
The Administration is going to run out the clock on global warming
March 28, 2008 10:43 PM - , Clean Air Watch
Today the Bush administration FINALLY responded to the Supreme Court case on global warming -- a case the Bush crowd lost nearly a year ago. Unfortunately, this plan appears to put EPA’s response on a very slow track.