]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/bush-administration Blog Articles Tagged with 'bush-administration' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/154578?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration A number of bloggers shared wrap ups of environmental news in 2008 and offered predictions for 2009:Grist lists the top green stories of 2008 from bpa getting a bad rep to the offshore drilling ban getting lifted.Joe Romm counts down the top ten gl... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/154578?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:34:43 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/154572?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration With a campaign tag line, CHANGE WE NEED, President-Elect Barack Obama and a large portion of the American population should have some rather meaningful New Year resolutions for 2009.For many of us, as we review the financial carnage of 2008 and the ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/sustainablog/154572?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:44:41 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/154580?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Yesterday California's Attorney General filed a federal lawsuit to block the Bush Administration's last-minute regulations weakening the Endangered Species Act. His action follows separate lawsuits filed by NRDC, Earthjustice, and other conserva... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/154580?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:50:34 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153925?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Some mountaintops removed for mining, photo courtesy of the NY TimesYou've got to love all these Midnight Rules that keep popping up whether it's the lifting of poultry farm regulations, or the latest egregious legislation: a repealing of the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/153925?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:49:45 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153980?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration When the Bush Administration decided that it absolutely positively was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming--and it damned sure wasn't going to let anyone else use it that way--someone in the bowels of the Administrat... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153980?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:50:53 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153667?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration I'm back from some holiday travels and ready to blog! (if some pesky kids would leave me alone [bah, humbug! ... or in the words of the local version of The Christmas Carol: horsefeathers! ... I expect to be visited by the Guest tonight]):A feder... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/153667?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:38:42 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/153871?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed:Asahi.com: EDITORIAL: Hamaoka nuclear plant Chubu Electric Power Co. has decided to retire two old nuclear reactors and build a new state-of-the-art reactor at the same nuclear power p... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/153871?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:40:48 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153399?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration The Environmental Protection Agency ruled that new power plants are not required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejecting an argument from environmental groups. The ruling turns on a seemingly arcane regulatory question t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153399?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:56:08 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153323?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration On the front page, the Los Angeles Times reports on a federal decision that has officially snuffed out plans for the San Onofre toll road in California a project that was widely unpopular in environmental and surfing communities; in the article Joe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153323?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:37:06 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153417?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration President-elect Barack Obama nominated the former governor of Iowa, Tom Vilsack, to serve as his secretary of agriculture earlier this week. If approved, Vilsack will oversee the world's most productive farmlands, and therefore, some of the world's m... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/worldwatch-institute/153417?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:28:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153326?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Our friends at Appalachian Voices have a campaign to save America's Most Endangered Mountains from strip-mining on steroids -- otherwise known as mountaintop removal mining. The latest mountain in the cross-hairs of Big Coal is a ridge top abo... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153326?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:54:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153330?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Earlier today Chicago Breaking News, the Huffington Post (and several others I am sure) reported that actor Jeremy Piven will be headed home from Broadway for a while-- due to extreme mercury toxicity. Now, not even Piven's doctors (and he has a cou... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/153330?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:00:21 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153402?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration I know, I know: If you support adaptation in the global warming debate, you run the risk of being mistaken for someone who opposes mitigation. But I'm not one of those adaptation-only Bjorn Lomborg types. I support both capping emissions, and als... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/desmogblog/153402?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:05:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/153218?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Back in August we told you about the Marshall Islands where the US tested 67 nuclear weapons in the 1940s and 1950s. The concrete dome over the nuclear waste dump on the island of Runit is already deteriorating despite it only being 30 years old and ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/greenpeace-weblogs/153218?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/153085?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration The 110th session of Congress has ended, but that doesn't mean that all the energy and attention people have paid to bills in Congress that didn't pass will be abandoned. Many of them will be reintroduced next year in the 111th session of Congress (... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/open-congress/153085?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:50:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/152549?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Jake Rajs Stone/Getty ImagesNew studies show that operations from chicken farms generate more ammonia emissions annually than oil refineries and steel mills combined in poultry heavy states. About 8 times more. And now the EPA is pushing for an exe... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/152549?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:22:27 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/152540?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Blame themselves? You're getting colder. Blame Canada? You're getting (globally) warmer .Below is another dispatch from the climate talks in Poland by CAP Senior Fellow Andrew Light, first printed in WonkRoom.In one of the more surreal moments ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/climate-progress/152540?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:43:50 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/152623?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Federal land management agencies do just what their name implies: manage federal lands. They don't own the lands. They manage them on behalf of the owners--the American people. These agencies include the Bureau of Land Management (which manages 258 m... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/152623?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:28:47 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/152493?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration The new Bush administration policy on the Endangered Species Act got a lot of news media attention because of its links to climate change and the plight of the polar bear. But a change that's getting less attention could have even further-reaching ef... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/dateline-earth/152493?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:05:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/152628?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Great column in the Knoxville News-Sentinel on what the Bush administration's latest giveway to the mining industry means for America's mountains, including the majestic Smokies. Couldn't have said it better myself, so here it is re-printed in full:... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/152628?rsstype=tag&tag=bush-administration Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:44:23 -0500