Tag Archives: EPA
What the Keystone XL pipeline has in store for America
It has been three years since an Enbridge Energy pipeline ruptured beneath this small western Michigan town, spewing more than 840,000 gallons of thick oil sands crude into the Kalamazoo River and Talmadge Creek, the largest oil pipeline failure in the country’s history. Last March, an Exxon Mobil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Ark., releasing thousands […]
Carbon taxes for the people while the elite keep polluting
Two miles from the White House stands the Capitol Power Plant, the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation’s capital and a concrete example of the government’s inability to curb it’s own pollution. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/us/politics/just-across-town-a-test-of-obamas-emissions-goals.html?ref=us The plant, which provides heating and cooling to the sprawling Capitol campus — 23 buildings that include the Library […]
Energy lobby thwarts EPA
The EPA delayed issuance of a new rule limiting emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from new power plants after the electric power industry objected. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/science/earth/epa-to-delay-emissions-rule-at-new-power-plants.html?ref=us The rule would have put in place the first restrictions on climate-altering gases from the power sector in the United States. Agency officials said it would be […]
Dirty Babylon 