7 PM SLC Time - Live Steam - Who Should Manage Utah's Public Lands? -- Debate
[Starting 7 minutes from first posting on Daily Kos....plug in NOW!)=====The debate tonight sponsored by the Salt Lake City Tribune...Who Should Manage Utah's Public Lands - Town Hall....Is LIVE...
View ArticleHealthCare.Gov - Dropping/Changing Dental Coverage Will Axe Your Entire...
Here is something that President Obama needs to fix with HealthCare.Gov -- a major problem I've personally just stumbled into.When I signed up for ObamaCare, the HealthCare.gov system offered dental...
View ArticleMichigan DEQ Proposes Denial of Air Quality Permit for Petroleum Coke Storage...
An important new development arose his morning in the entire matter of Detroit Bulk Storage, Inc., the firm responsible for the past storage and marine trans-shipment of petroleum coke produced by the...
View ArticleStatement from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on the President's Power Plant...
MEDIA CONTACT: EPA Press Office press@epa.gov 202-564-4355FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 2, 2014Remarks for Administrator McCarthy, Announcement of Clean Power Plan, Washington, DCWASHINGTON- About a month...
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NN14 - Blast from the Past - 1983 Detroit & Wayne County Air Pollution Photo...
NN14 Attendees and others....let me take you back to year 1983 in Detroit and Wayne County in a photo diary about air pollution. Note that most photos are B/W reproduction.Mostly I'm doing this here...
View ArticleGood News for Those with High Blood Pressure
A visit to my local pharmacy to get a prescription yields this news.....Diovan, a popular and effective anti-hypertension drug has just gone generic [as Valsartan]. The 'good news' part of this is...
View ArticleDenver Tornado -- NWS Warning Has Expired
http://classic.wunderground.com/...Statement as of 4:02 PM MDT on July 28, 2014The National Weather Service in Denver has issued a* Tornado Warning for... central Denver County in northeast Colorado......
View ArticleCO-GOV/CO-SEN Gov Hickenlooper Makes a Deal with Rep. Polis; Seeks Dropping...
[Note...Diary and the original title was corrected from original version.]This is a very brief and quick diary with some good news for Democrats in Colorado. Governor John Hickenlooper, Senator Mark...
View ArticleEPA Proposes New Regulatory Changes on Oil Refineries in Response to...
1. President Obama Gets Environmental Protection Done.President Obama's Administration is proposing important changes affecting environmental and public health protection around the nation's...
View Article"Detroit Water Shutoffs Resume; Bankruptcy Lawyers and Banks Cash In"
The above is the title of a read-worthy piece by former NY Times reporter and Circle of Blue Correspondent, Keith Schneider. I just received this link from Enviro-Mich and thought it should be...
View ArticleEPA Bust of WV Natural Gas Extraction Company with $3 Million Civil Penalty
Just a quick note to again point out that what you see in Gasland and hear from Josh Fox about the oil and gas industry and hydraulic fracturing being exempt from the Clean Water Act is...
View ArticleInspector General Finds EPA & States Not Getting Gulf Dead Zone Nutrient...
EPA's Inspector General has issued a report indicating that EPA's Office of Water & state water pollution control agencies don't have in place sufficient measures to assure that states address and...
View ArticleBárðarbunga: NASA MODIS Imagery Taken Earlier This Morning
I've been watching NASA MODIS satellite imagery for the last couple of days of Iceland and today is the first day without complete overcast conditions with a visible indication of Bárðarbunga volcano...
View ArticleSierra Club Takes Major Hit in Texas Litigation - $6.4 Million Attorney Fee...
Here is something rarely seen.....and definitely not good news, speaking as a 25 year Sierra Club member.A major national environmental organization, Sierra Club, just got hit with a $6.4 million...
View ArticleRange Resources Gets $4.5 Million Fine, Clean-Up Order, for Wastewater...
Just a quick note of some news I've just seen from last Thursday. Natural gas exploration firm Range Resources Corporation will pay a $4.15 million penalty and conduct remediation to address...
View Article12:50 PM - President Obama's Remarks At Climate Summit
Scheduled at 12:50 PM Eastern time - President Obama at Climate SummitPresident Obama at @UN#2014Climate Summit – LIVE at 12:50pm ET on C-SPAN2 http://t.co/...pic.twitter.com/zGgHCRXJdB— CSPAN...
View ArticlePresident Obama Shows How Democrats Do Governing Stewardship on...
President Barack Obama has issued an executive order to address the crucial matter of antibiotic resistant bacteria....part of the President's outstanding leadership on environmental and public health...
View ArticlePresident Obama's FDA Releases Four Food Safety Proposals
In today's Federal Register, the Obama Administration Food and Drug Administration released four new proposed rules for public comment. Each of the actions re-opens a comment period on selected...
View ArticleLower Great Lakes Algae Imagery Yesterday from NASA
This NASA MODIS Instrument Aqua Satellite platform imagery of the lower Great Lakes, taken yesterday (09/29/2014), shows an interesting image of transport and occurrence of algae/phytoplankton. See...
View ArticleEuropean Union Stops Fight Against Canadian Tar Sands Crude Shipments
In the backdrop of the Russian hydrocarbon sanctions, the European Union is capitulating to Canada in trade negotiations over the use of high greenhouse gas intensity tar sands crude. The EU will drop...
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