The Obama administration's efforts to toughen mine safety enforcement, following the Upper Big Branch disaster in April that killed 29, are encountering the same old evade-and-delay resistance from the mining industry. Those are the tactics that appear to have led to the disaster in the first place.
"MIT professor Kerry Emanuel is among a rare breed of conservative scientists who are sounding the alarm for climate change and criticizing Republicans' 'agenda of denial' and 'anti-science stance.'"
Meet the Giordanos -- a father-son team who fled to Italy as fugitives from the law when EPA enforcers got them indicted for importing Alfa Romeos that did not meet federal emission standards. Their faces are online in EPA's most wanted list.
"In marketing campaigns featuring heavy-metal theme songs, rapping parents, secret agents in cat masks, pyrotechnics and even Godzilla, minivan makers are trying to recast the much-ridiculed mom-mobile as something that parents can be proud -- or at least unashamed -- of driving."
"Gov. Andrew Cuomo is receiving plaudits from environmental groups for nominating Joseph Martens as the new commissioner of New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation."
"State environmental officials approved new coal-ash landfill in southeast Baltimore Tuesday, saying "state-of-the-art" pollution controls there should allay nearby residents' fears that the power plant waste will blow into their neighborhoods and leak into the Patapsco River."
"The environmental movement lost a leader Monday night with the death of Judy Bonds, executive director of Coal River Mountain Watch. Bonds, 58, had battled cancer for several months, but to the end was a leading voice in the movement to end mountaintop removal coal mining."
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"Federal [officials] Monday issued seven safety recommendations — six of them labeled urgent — stemming from the explosion of a natural gas pipeline that killed eight people and destroyed 37 homes in the Bay Area community of San Bruno last September."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-push-strengthen-mine-safety-faces-resistance-old-strategies
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010305445.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mits-emanuel-conservative-who-believes-climate-science
[4] http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scientist-climate-20110105,0,6481221.story
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epas-enforcers-try-pr-net-fugitives-shed-tree-hugger-image
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/01/04/04greenwire-epas-enforcers-try-pr-to-net-fugitives-shed-tr-85801.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mocked-uncool-minivan-rises-again
[8] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/business/04minivan.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ny-cuomo-picks-open-space-advocate-environment-chief
[10] http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/scott-picks-shipbuilding-executive-to-head-environmental-protection-agency/1143334
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/state-approves-coal-ash-landfill-south-baltimore
[12] http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-coal-ash-hawkins-20110104,0,4431191.story
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/judy-bonds-godmother-anti-mountaintop-removal-movement-mourned
[14] http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/01/judy-bonds-coal-river
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/ej-epa-legal-impacts-new-priorities
[16] https://www.sej.org/remembering-kevin-carmody
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fed-board-issues-safety-recommendations-stemming-pipeline-blast
[18] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pipeline-20110104,0,5565812.story
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[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4451
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4452
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4455
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4456
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4457
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4458
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