All Posts Tagged With: "Clean Air Act"
Groups Claim BLM Cut-and-Paste Drilling Approvals Illegally Ignore Air Pollution Impacts
“The BLM has approved thousands of oil and gas wells with no analysis of the air pollution they cause,” said Peter Hart of Wilderness Workshop.“Instead, the agency simply cut-and-pasted incorrect boilerplate statements about the Roan EIS into its environmental analyses for dozens of projects.”
20Jun2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
EPA Report: Clean Air Act Has Saved Millions of Lives
U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., has helped lead the GOP pushback against the regulation of GHG emissions. But the study estimates the benefits of reducing fine particle and ozone pollution under the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments will reach roughly $2 trillion by 2020 and saved countless lives.
4Mar2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Companies Blast Murkowski’s Bid to
Block EPA on Greenhouse Gases
Critics say Murkowski and coal-state Democrats like Rockefeller are pandering to entrenched fossil-fuel-based power sources and mining interests at the expense of a growing clean-energy sector like the one currently booming in Colorado.
9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy Battered, Not Broken
A cascade of events have discouraged such folks – to the degree that many are taking a silver-lining perspective on the clouds gathering around attempts to transform the energy industry in Colorado and beyond.
2Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Public Packs Valmont Power Plant Hearing
in Boulder
Residents took their turn at the podium in the County Courthouse for nearly four hours, pleading with the state’s Air Quality Control Commission to deny the permit for a host of reasons, mostly centering on the CO2 released each year when coal is burned at the plant northeast of Boulder.
15Jul2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Breaking Policy News — U.S. Declares Warming Gases are Health Threat
The Environmental Protection Agency said today that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a significant threat to human health and thus will be listed as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. HOW or WHAT to regulate is not spelled out. Instead, the EPA and lawmakers are expected to begin that discussion.
17Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA Declaration: Greenhouse Gases Threat to Human Health — Clean Air Act May be Used to Regulate Carbon Gases
It also cautioned that the Obama administration, which sees responding to climate change a top priority, nevertheless is ready to move cautiously when it comes to actually regulating greenhouse gases, preferring to have Congress act.
24Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...