Last Friday’s budget deal blocks funding for the Obama administration’s National Climate Service (NCS). —>
Day: April 12, 2011
Senate aide: Phony amendments saved EPA from wobbly Obama in budget deal
Although EPA’s allies are trying to sell the message that last week’s failure to rein in the EPA (through the McConnell amendment and budget deal riders) is some sort of validation of what the agency is doing, the reality is much different. Continue reading Senate aide: Phony amendments saved EPA from wobbly Obama in budget deal
House Dems press EPA on dioxin; Ben & Jerry's to the rescue!
Seventy-two House Democrats wrote to the EPA yesterday pressing the agency to complete its 20-years-in-the-making risk assessment on dioxin. Possibly they don’t know this, but one of the reasons the dioxin assessment has taken so long is that it was debunked and derailed by JunkScience.com and Ben & Jerry’s in November 1999. Continue reading House Dems press EPA on dioxin; Ben & Jerry's to the rescue!