So I got this email from a reader, and I even replied to it but the email kept bouncing back to me. I’m sure plenty of you have the same question, so here’s the email and my answer. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
President Obama just announced a once-in-a-generation step forward to protect our environment—the first-ever national standards on mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants. It’s a huge accomplishment that will help clean up our air and water, preventing thousands of premature deaths and over 100,000 cases of childhood asthma each year. Check out this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a major victory for the Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalists, President Obama, and all people who enjoy breathing clean air. According to grist.org, “Finally controlling mercury and toxics will be an advance on par with getting lead out of gasoline.” Considering this political climate and the amount of heavy opposition the EPA has been […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The timing of natural events, such as flower blooms and animal migration, is influenced by changes in climate.” -Climate Change Indicators in the United States This weekend a nor’easter hit the Northeast U.S. with a wintery mix of snow, sleet and rain leaving many feeling like just at the end of October we’ve managed to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Smog over Skyline from São Paulo city in Brazil by Gaf.arq Ever so quietly this Labor Day Weekend President Obama announced he is directing the EPA to withdraw smog standards that would have cut smog pollution from power plants, refineries and even cars. The smog limits would have prevented 2,200 heart attacks and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Letterman: Are you [the EPA] concerned with climate change? That doesn’t come under your heading or does it? Jackson: Oh Absolutely we’re concerned with climate change. Absolutely. Letterman: And there’s nothing we can do about that really is there? [laughter] Jackson: I personally don’t think it’s hopeless. I think we need to move. I think […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: NGerda, Clean Air buttons On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. In her testimony she defended the Clean Air act which is currently under attack from the Republicans. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
Photo Credit: Dori, Smokestacks, in Champaign, Illinois Eighteen of America’s leading scientific societies have written that multiple lines of evidence show humans are changing the climate, that contrary assertions are inconsistent with an objective assessment of the vast body of peer-reviewed science, and that ongoing climate change will have broad impacts on society, including the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: usepagov (2010) -EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson observing vessel and boom clean up operations on Grand Isle, Louisiana Today, February 8th, Lisa P. Jackson’s birthday. Jackson is the first African-American to serve as Head Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. She has made it a priority to focus on vulnerable groups including children, the elderly, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Special interests have spent millions of dollars making the case that we must choose the economy or the environment, attacking everything from removing lead in gasoline to cleaning up acid rain. They have consistently exaggerated the cost and scope of EPA actions, and in 40 years their predictions have not come true.” ~Lisa P. Jackson, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
