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TCEQ Blowing Smoke? : Protecting the Texas Environment
Image from Pegasus News / Dallas/Ft.WorthTexas’ lack of compliance:EPA challenges TCEQ over air quality By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / May 30, 2010 The state agency that is supposed to assure that pollution does not endanger the citizens … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Quality, Clean Air Act, Environment, EPA, Fort Worth, pollution, Rick Perry, TCEQ, Ted McLaughlin, Texas
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Mississippi Politics : Nasal Denial and Oily Delusion
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Mississippi Politics:Getting stinkier by the minute By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / May 15, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — Growing up in Texas I was sure politics couldn’t get any stinkier, any … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Environment, Mississippi, Oil Spill, pollution
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Harvey Wasserman : The BP Dead Zone
Before the Spill: Gulf of Mexico, 2009, from Destin, Florida. Photo ©2009 Mark Meyer.While our military rots in the wrong gulf:BP blows an apocalyptic gusher By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / May 12, 2010 See ‘Ripple in still … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, British Petroleum, Environment, Gulf Coast, Harvey Wasserman, Military, Oil Spill, pollution
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Nation’s Biggest Polluter : Texas Sues the EPA!
Houston: Texas likes its greenhouse gases. Photo by David J. Phillip / AP.Protecting the corporate interests:Texas sues EPA over greenhouse gas regulationsBy Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / February 16, 2010 There is no doubt at all that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Climate Change, Environment, EPA, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gasses, pollution, Ted McLaughlin, Texas
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Jonah Raskin : Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman’s Ghost, and ‘Dirty Water’
Bill Sharpsteen’s Dirty Water:How a community took on City Hall and won By Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / January 14, 2010 [Dirty Water: One Man’s Fight to Clean Up One of the World’s Most Polluted Bays, by Bill … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Books, Community Organizing, Environment, pollution, Social Activism, Tom Hayden
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Climate Change Legislation : Too Hot to Handle?
Congress and climate change: enough to blow your stack.Obama, Congress and climate change legislation Most environmental groups and leaders supported the House effort… but were quite critical of the Obama Administration’s many concessions to greenhouse gas-producing industries that are responsible … Continue reading
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Tagged Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Congress, Environment, Environmental Regulation, Global Warming, Obama Legislation, pollution
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Many Ways Industrial Agriculture Is Making Us Sick
Runoff of waste from farm animals is said to be a source of pollutants in drinking water. Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times.Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls WellsBy Charles Duhigg / September 17, 2009 MORRISON, Wis. — All … Continue reading
Organic Alternative and the Whole Foods Fraud
The organic monopoly and the myth of ‘natural’ foods: How industry giants are undermining the organic movement On non-meat products, the term natural is typically pure propaganda. Companies (like Whole Foods Market or UNFI) are simply telling us what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Environment, Organic Food, pollution, Sustainability, Whole Foods
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Fight for the Amazon : The Planet’s at Stake
A police helicopter takes away indigenous protesters who have been arrested in the Peruvian rainforest. It returns later and is used to fire tear gas at protesters. Photo by Thomas Quirynen and Marijke Deleu / Independent, U.K.A fight for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Carbon Emissions, Direct Action, Environment, Global Warming, Indigenous People, Peru, pollution, Social Protest, South America
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Documenting the End of the Petroleum Age
Click on arrow to play the ‘one-minute times millions’ video © 2009 jim otterstrom A One-Minute Reminder From The Lorax!By Jim Otterstrom / January 14, 2009 Time is running out for the Petroleum Age… …and none too soon if you … Continue reading
Los Angeles and Owens Valley : An Epic Struggle Over Water
Harry Williams, member of the Paiute Tribe, wants to protect the Owens Valley from development. Photo by Jennifer I. Fenton / WIP. The struggle over Owens Valley’s water resources is spattered with tales reminiscent of an old Hollywood Western starring … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Environment, Los Angeles, Native Americans, Natural Resources, pollution, Water Conservation
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Quack!!! Lame Duck Bush Ripping Through Wilderness Protection
‘With barely 60 days to go until Bush hands over to Barack Obama, his White House is working methodically to weaken or reverse an array of regulations that protect America’s wilderness.’By Suzanne Goldenberg / November 20, 2008 George Bush is … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Bush Presidency, Clean Water Act, Environment, EPA, pollution, Wilderness Protection
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