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February 23, 2011

Tr-Ash Talk: House Broken

By Lisa Evans  /  Washington, D.C. Office

Early Saturday morning, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to the House budget bill that had nothing to do with trimming the federal deficit, but everything to do with sweetening the bottom line of the likes of Duke Energy, AEP, Ameren and Southern Company. The House passed this amendment at about two in …

February 16, 2011

Tr-Ash Talk: Riders In A Stormy Congress

By Lisa Evans

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 …

February 1, 2011

Tr-Ash Talk: EPA’s Blind Spot

By Lisa Evans  /  Washington, D.C. Office

(Barb Gottlieb of Physicians for Social Responsibility contributed to this report.) Just three weeks ago, after a study found chromium, a toxic heavy metal, in tap water in 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested, the Environmental Protection Agency issued new guidelines recommending that all public water utilities test their drinking water for hexavalent chromium or …