"With no say in their chamber's agenda but an ambitious goal of reclaiming the majority, House Democrats are turning to energy and environmental issues in their latest bid to promote an alternative to the GOP economic agenda ahead of the 2012 election."
"Farm groups and members of Congress are jumping the gun in their efforts to stop U.S. EPA from making its air pollution rules tougher on dusty rural areas, the agency's second-in-command said yesterday."
As gas companies race to drill more wells that produce gas with a technique known as hydrofracking, the dangers of the toxic wastewater they discharge turn out to be greater than previously understood.
The full House Natural Resources Committee will hold an Interior Department budget and oversight hearing at 10 am EST.
House Energy & Commerce Committee GOP Hearing on EPA Climate Regulations and Jobs
Journalists are invited to join Toronto-area SEJ members at our monthly pub night. In April, our guest will be Jim Stanford, economist with the CAW and author of Economics for Everyone.
"Restrictions on water pumping that helps supply Southern California, intended to protect California's delta smelt, will be relaxed through June."
"Thousands of people living within four miles of the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute could have been exposed to potentially harmful levels of methyl isocyanate if the contents of an MIC tank located near an August 2008 explosion had been released, according to a government study obtained by the Gazette."
"As [Maine] Gov. Paul LePage continued to weather national fallout for recently saying women could develop 'little beards' if exposed to bisphenol-A, or BPA, questions continue to mount about the motives behind the governor's proposal to reverse a ban on the substance."
"NOAA will give high priority to an investigation into the large numbers of baby dolphin deaths along the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, an official told the Sun Herald on Wednesday."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/house-dems-hope-shadow-hearings-spread-their-green-jobs-message
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/25/25greenwire-house-dems-hope-shadow-hearings-spread-their-g-93311.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pre-emptive-attacks-dust-rules-draw-rebuke-epa
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/02/25/25greenwire-pre-emptive-attacks-on-dust-rules-draw-rebuke-66421.html
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/regulation-lax-gas-wells%E2%80%99-tainted-water-hits-rivers
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/calendar/house-natural-resources-interior-dept-budgetoversight-hearing
[8] https://www.sej.org/calendar/house-energy-hearing-epa-greenhouse-rule
[9] https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-toronto-pub-night-1
[10] https://www.sej.org/headlines/temporary-truce-reached-california-delta-smelt-water-restrictions
[11] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-smelt-20110225,0,2533799.story
[12] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chemical-safety-board-study-details-potential-mic-leak-impacts
[13] http://wvgazette.com/News/201102241389
[14] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lepage-motives-bpa-policy-mills-firing-questioned
[15] http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/991299
[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/noaa-oversee-study-dead-baby-dolphins-gulf
[17] http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/23/2889379/baby-dolphin-deaths-get-feds-attention.html
[18] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4354
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4351
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4352
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4353
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4356
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4357
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4358
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