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Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s Pilot Project for Environmental Destruction
On Thursday, March 23rd, executive deputy secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, John Hines, hit send on an unanticipated and regressive email memo ordering all Pennsylvania gas inspectors to stop issuing violations against drillers without prior approval from political appointee Michael Krancer. The dramatic policy change will effectively suppress “Notice of Violations” (NOV)…
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Mercury in Waste Coal
Above chart from “Mercury and Utilities: Current Control Technologies” (7/31/2001 EPA presentation, page 6), based on EPA’s 1999 Information Collection Request (ICR) (download raw data or view their summary data in Excel. More concise summary data comparing BTU, mercury and sulfur content of coals by region available from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information…
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End the Climate Change Debate
Lately I have noticed a lot of false equivalence in the media. What’s crazier still is the way they are often touted as something to be proud of. As though the cliché phrase “there are two sides to every story” were a golden rule for newscasters to live by. I think that we need to…
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