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Wednesday, December 3, 2003 |
Former EPA Administrator Carol Browner puts a fine point on it (in conversation with Aaron Brown about the Bush Administation's environmental policies), and the point is apparently not "cap and trade" vs regulation, as some media reports would suggest.
Cap and trade is fine, she said. The problem is where the Bush mercury
reduction plan sets the cap -- calling for a 70% reduction over 15
years, vs. the existing plan, which would reduce levels 90% over five
years.
7:42:02 PM 
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[Green Media Toolshed]: Staples' Environmental Progress Report Fuels Further Criticism of Office Depot
"While Staples has been working collaboratively with forest protection
groups and making real progress on its commitment to phase out products
from endangered forests, Office Depot is spinning its wheels in a
public relations battle with environmental groups in defense of an
inadequate policy", said Danna Smith Campaign Director for Dogwood
Alliance. "While Office Depot has had a whole year to catch up,
Staples remains the clear environmental leader in the office supply
industry."
A new competitive front opens. The market driver of cultural creatives
voting with their dollars can be a powerful force for change, even
while the Bush Administration continues to roll back environmental
standards.
7:23:10 PM
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42 A-Plants Found to Lack Enough Cash for Cleanup. The
owners of nearly half the nuclear power reactors in the U.S. are not
reserving enough money to decommission them on retirement, a General
Accounting Office report said. By Matthew L. Wald. [New York Times: Science]
Unfortunately, this is not "news," but has been known and discussed for decades.
This is corporate malfeasance and willful (perhaps criminal) negligence
on a grand scale, sanctioned by your government and mine.
Is anyone at the SEC paying attention? Isn't failure to adequately reflect liabilities on the balance sheet a profound "no-no"?
8:47:00 AM
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[CleanEdge]: Energy Bill Standoff Holds Renewables Hostage
Most people in the renewable energy
business have probably never heard of Lyondell Chemical Co. of
Houston, Texas. Even fewer see a connection between this company
and the future of clean energy in the United States. But there is
one--albeit indirect-- and it speaks volumes about the appalling way we
go about formulating so-called energy [base "]policy[per thou] in this country.
Lyondell... the largest producer of
the gasoline additive MTBE (metyl tertiary butyl ether), now a
suspected carcinogen whose underground storage has allegedly led
to water contamination in 1,500 cities and towns across the
country... is the No. 1 business contributor to the 2004 re- election
campaign of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Now isn't that special!
8:40:49 AM
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