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    The Clean Air Fight Continues In 2012

    JANUARY 2, 2012 5:30PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: clean air, lisa p. jackson, epa, environmental protection agency, smog, 2012 federal budget, jan schakowsky, donna edwards, henry waxman, barbara boxer, thomas carper, robert redford, keystone xl tar sands pipeline, moms clean air force, coal, coal fire plants, american academy of pediatrics, american lung association, epa regulations vs economy, children's national medical center, mercury and air toxics standards, mats, mercury, professor teresa clemmer, asthma, public health, children's health, environment

    • 1 Ratings
    • 431 Views
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    Dr. Robert D. Bullard: Justice for Our Children

    NOVEMBER 17, 2011 9:08PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: robert d. bullard, environmental justice, communities of color, environmental justice resource center, energy apartheid, coal-fired plants, clean air act, ozone standard, president obama, peggy shepard, we act, dumping dixie-race class and environmental quality, epa, environmental protection agency, toxic waste and race report, harardous waste, public health, unequal protection, environment

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 1329 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    National Poll Says America Wants the EPA

    OCTOBER 21, 2011 9:49PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: mom clean air force, clean air act, us chamber of commerce, american lung association, mercury, environmental justice, particulate matter, national health, american health, epa scientists, corporate polluters, natural resources defense council, asthma, national poll, latina women's vote, environment, ozone pollution standard, obama, league of women voters, league of united latin american citizens, 2012 battleground states, public policy polling, environmental protection agency, epa

    • 3 Ratings
    • 251 Views
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    “If You Can’t Breathe, You Can’t Work”

    SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 2:27PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: barbara boxer, senate environmental and public work committee, frank lautenberg, ben cardin, epa, environmental protection agency, train act, hr 2401, clean air act, asthma, ickey woods, american lung association, mercury, air pollution, pollution in china, physicians for social responsibility, particulate matter air pollution, donna edwards, mercury and air toxics standard, cross-state air pollution rule, obama, presidential veto, moms clean air force, environment

    • 1 Ratings
    • 348 Views
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    Rep. Jan Schakowsky: Responding to the EPA Naysayers

    SEPTEMBER 3, 2011 5:23PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: rep. lois capps, koch brothers, texas and the environment, coal-fired plants, mercury, mercury and air toxics standards, the clean air interstate rule, the clean air act, gov. rick perry, emergency jobs to restore the american dream act, sustainableenergy and envrionment coalition, rep. jan schakowsky, environmental protection agency, epa, environment

    • 1 Ratings
    • 136 Views
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    Clean Air and the Baby Carriage

    AUGUST 9, 2011 11:13PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: clean air act, environmental protection agency, epa, mercury, coal-burning plants, air pollution, asthma, sergei einstein, american lung association, children's health

    • 2 Ratings
    • 146 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Personal Responsibility and the Fight for Clean Air

    JULY 22, 2011 11:56PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: activism, pollution, clean air, mr. smith goes to washington, frank capra, mercury, physicians for social responsibility, dr. lynn ringenberg, mercury and air toxics standard, american electric power, rep. fred upton, daniel j. weiss, environmental protection agency, epa, moms clean air force, debt ceiling, rupert murdoch

    • 2 Ratings
    • 455 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Obama sells us farther down the river

    APRIL 9, 2011 7:41PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: 2012 presidential election, al gore, barack obama, bipartisanship, budget cuts, cowardice, democratic party, dennis kucinich, environmental protection agency, federal budget, george w. bush, howard dean, john boehner, obama re-election, planned parenthood, politics, president barack obama, president obama, ralph nader, republican party, republican tea party, russ feingold, spending cuts

    • 0 Ratings
    • 401 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Using our troops as human shields doesn’t work anymore

    APRIL 7, 2011 3:54PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: environment, politics, feminism, war profiteers, war profiteering, vietraq war, troops, planned parenthood, patriarchy, national security, national defense, nancy pelosi, militarism, john boehner, hero worship, george w. bush, feminism, federal budget, epa, environmentalism, environmental protection agency, budget, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 282 Views
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    To hell in a handbasket — on crack

    MARCH 9, 2011 1:34PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: chris hedges, death of the liberal class, women's rights, union busting, teachers, republican tea party, republican party, public-school teachers, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, planned parenthood, npr, national public radio, muslims, muslim americans, military industrial complex, labor unions, labor movement, george w. bush, federal budget deficit, fascism, epa, environmentalism, environmental protection agency, environment, education, economy, economics, corporations, abortion

    • 13 Ratings
    • 589 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    A Probable Carcinogen in the American Drinking Water

    DECEMBER 20, 2010 9:15AM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: environmental protection agency, water, carcinogen, security, health, hexavalent chromium

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    • 224 Views
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    Light Sweet Crude… and Cookies

    AUGUST 10, 2010 12:18PM

    By Bob Higgins


    Topics: time warner, orwell, light sweet crude, ico, gulf of me, environmental protection agency, environmental disaster, environment, cookies, citizens united, bp, astroturf

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 675 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Disappearing Oil and Gulf Seafood: Passing the Sniff Test

    AUGUST 8, 2010 9:42PM

    By Bob Higgins


    Topics: transocean, macondo, gulf seafood, gulf oil spill, gulf of mexico, environmental protection agency, environmental disaster, deepwater horizon, british petroleum, bp

    • 0 Ratings
    • 257 Views
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    A Gusher of Light Sweet Terror

    JUNE 14, 2010 3:56PM

    By Bob Higgins


    Topics: alabama coast, bob higgins, bp, environmental degradation, environmental protection agency, flor, florida coast, gulf of mexico, gulf oil spill, humpgrey bogart, john huston, louisiana cosat, mba, mississippi coast, offshore drilling, oil plume, tony hayward, treasure of the sierra madre, walter huston, wetlands

    • 0 Ratings
    • 188 Views
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    Weekly Mulch: Citizens Lead Cochabamba Climate Negotiations

    APRIL 23, 2010 11:36AM

    By The Media Consortium


    Topics: yes! magazine, women's media center, united nations, un secretary general ban ki-moon, the nation, sierra club, public news service, inter press service, grittv, gaylord nelson, evo morales, environmentalism, environmental protection agency, earth day, democracy now!, copenhagen, cochabamba, clean water act, clean air act, care2, bolivia, alternet

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 9084 Views
    • 21 Comments
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    The End of Mountaintop Removal Mining? It’s Complicated.

    APRIL 8, 2010 8:30AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: ohio valley environmental coalition, vivian stockman mountaintop removal mining, lisa jackson, coal mining, upper branch mine, environmental protection agency, epa, conductivity, west virginia highlands conservancy, cindy rank, appalachian center for the economy and the environment, joe lovett, west virginia economy, u.s. army corps of engineers, environment, west virginia, joe manchin, mining disaster, coal river, wendell berry, don blankenship, massey energy, mtr, u.s. energy policy, clean coal, there is no such thing as clean coal, politics, business

    • 0 Ratings
    • 817 Views
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    Gas Drilling : Sullivan County’s Hazards Mitigation Plan

    MARCH 6, 2010 8:25AM

    By Breathing Is Political


    Topics: sullivan county legislative map, sullivan county gas drilling task force, sullivan county, severance tax on gas industry, new york, mayor tillman, mayor calvin tillman, lake huntington, hazard mitigation questionnaire, fracturing responsibility and awareness of chemicals act of 2009, frac act, fema grant, epa tipline, epa, environmental protection agency, department of environmental conservation, dec, cornell law school water law clinic, conrail, compliance assistance notebooks, cochecton, callicoon, barton and loguidice, all hazard mitigation plan

    • 0 Ratings
    • 241 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    EPA Finds that Greenhouse Gases are Dangerous

    APRIL 22, 2009 12:03PM

    By SCGA


    Topics: environmental protection agency, greenhouse gases, endangerment finding

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1921 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Will Mountaintop Removal Bite the Dust?

    MARCH 31, 2009 6:28PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: environment, mountaintop removal, environmental protection agency, e.p.a., coal river, joe lovett

    • 0 Ratings
    • 274 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Bush EPA Promotes Pollution as a "Commodity"

    DECEMBER 13, 2008 11:54AM

    By Mick Arran


    Topics: environmental protection agency, pollution exemptions

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