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What!? Florida Congressman Acts In Support of Toxic Slime
As you’ve read in this space before, the EPA’s new water pollution limits are designed to control the public health threat posed by the green slime that continually breaks out on Florida waterways.
Read MoreAmericans and Congress Don't Breathe the Same Air
Many of our elected representatives in Congress just aren’t working for the will of the people. Right now, in direct opposition to the opinion of a large majority of Americans, these members of our government are putting in overtime to roll back important limits on air pollution coming from some of the worst industrial polluters…
Read MoreAmerica’s Values, Environment on Chopping Block in Congress
House Republicans are using the oft-repeated refrain of “fiscal restraint” as their excuse for gutting several environmental initiatives that will put the public in harm’s way. But there simply is no excuse for hacking away at health protections that will leave our air and water dirtier and our children and seniors at risk. It’s not…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Riders In A Stormy Congress
The highwaymen of the 112th Congress are trying to take away the authority of the EPA and rob the will of the people on a variety of critical public health and environmental issues by attaching riders to the House budget bill (the Continuing Resolution). The spending legislation introduced by the House Appropriations Committee this week…
Read MoreMassive Attacks on Environment Launched in Congress
Teabag by teabag, the anti-environment faction in the House of Representatives has filled its federal government spending bill with amendments that will cripple protections for our water, air, natural resources, wildlife and public health. Not since the darkest days of the Bush administration have we seen such an onslaught on the environment—and the hits are still coming. By mid-day today…
Read MoreDeclare Your Right to Breathe
Do you think that all Americans have the right to clean air? Then sign the Right to Breathe Declaration! The Clean Air Act—signed in 1970 by Pres. Nixon and improved upon in 1990 by George H.W. Bush—has benefitted millions of Americans in its 40-year history. Just last year, for example, clean air health protections helped…
Read MoreLand of Retrenchment
There’s a lot of backward movement on the environment in Congress these days. EPA is under assault for trying to regulate greenhouse gases. The Interior Department’s efforts to protect some wildlands are also being attacked. But why should Congress have all the fun? Here in the Rocky Mountain West, the 2012 elections also brought some…
Read MoreAttorneys General Defend Our Right to Breathe
Attorneys general from five states—New York, Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and Connecticut—sent a letter today to Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, urging a rejection of Rep. John Carter’s (R-TX) resolution to block health protections against cement plants’ toxic air pollution. Led by Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New…
Read MoreWash. Judge Rejects Attack on New Building Energy Code
On Feb. 8, a federal judge in Washington State sided with conservationists, energy efficiency boosters and the state’s building code council, upholding new standards for energy conservation in new home construction. The homebuilders’ association had challenged the new standards, which went into effect this past Jan. 1, claiming they were in conflict with federal law.…
Read MoreDoctors' Orders—America Needs Clean Air
This week, nearly 2,000 health and medical professionals from all 50 states and the District of Columbia told our elected representatives at the White House and in Congress to stand up for clean air. These professionals are intimately familiar with the impacts of air pollution on people—asthma, heart disease, stroke, cancer—especially such vulnerable groups as…
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