A Legal Setback for Clean Air and a New Chance to Fight Soot Pollution
Bad news for American hearts and lungs: Last week, a federal circuit court struck down a proposed EPA clean air standard that would have reduced dangerous emissions from coal-fired power…
Scientists or Lobbyists: Who do You Trust to Act in the Best Interests of our World’s Rainforests?
In what has been called the biggest climate decision of the year for the Obama Administration, the Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil industries are flexing their lobbying muscle to overturn…
EPA Announces Powerful Air Pollution Safeguards: You Spoke and Lisa Jackson Listened
As the holidays draw near I’m raising a glass to all of you RAN activists, because—along with hundreds of thousands of clean air advocate allies—you stood up and asked the…
Obama Buries Bad News, Insults Us All
If you blinked, you probably missed it. Last Friday, when most were getting ready to enjoy the Labor Day holiday, President Obama slipped out an announcement that he was asking…
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Clean Water Act – In Mountaintop Removal States
A new poll released yesterday of likely voters in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia shows widespread opposition to mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and overwhelming support for enforcement of…
Top 5 Reasons The Obama-GOP Debt Ceiling Agreement Is A Bad Deal For The Environment
President Obama just signed the debt deal into law. Just in time too — there were about 10 hours to spare before the midnight deadline, after which our government would…
Lessons For Activists From EPA’s Anniversary
The anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency, created forty years ago this month, should remind us all of how action at the grass roots can make a real difference. I…
RAN DC Delivers Over 6,000 Public Comments To EPA
Yesterday was the end of the public comment period for the April 1st guidelines that put tougher standards on mountaintop removal mining permits. So we stuffed the public comments into…
Big Coal Launches Assault On EPA
The sharks smell the blood in the water. The opposition is emboldened. Whatever are we to do? After the “shellacking” that the Dems took at the hands of the teabaggers…
EPA Visits Mountain(top Removal) In Kentucky
On Tuesday I went to the town of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky. It’s a surreal-looking place, if you get up out of the valley onto any viewpoint the panorama…