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On AB 32 …
... Schwarzenegger and the business lobby are playing a perilous game of chicken with state Dems. Let's hope they don't collectively blow it.
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Dem plan to fight global warming
Feinstein unveils it. It's not ideal, but it's pushing the bounds of what's currently acceptable, and that's about the best you could ask for.
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Weak energy-efficiency rules flying under the radar
I wish enviros (and, hell, everyone else) would kick up more of a fuss about this kind of stuff. Energy-efficiency measures don't get enough attention, from the PTB or from the green movement.
The Bushies are lowballing these standards because, well, that's what they do: the minimal necessary to keep up appearances and still not bother their industry friends. If they discovered that everyone was watching, and a shitstorm would kick up every time they tried to skirt real, impactful rules on this sort of thing, they'd change their tune. As it is, they get away with it because everybody's attention is elsewhere.
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Diss Me Cate
EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust A U.S. EPA whistleblower has gone public with accusations that the agency downplayed the health hazards of dust from […]
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Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One
EPA must consult wildlife officials about pesticide use Yesterday a federal judge overturned a two-year-old regulation that allowed the U.S. EPA to approve pesticides without consulting the U.S. Fish and […]
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Shags in the wild
While it is not about a strictly environmental topic, I nonetheless feel duty-bound (and proud) to point out that our very own Sarah van Schagen -- author of the wildly popular Something Fishy column -- has a new piece up on CampusProgress.org. Check it out.
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Non-“environmental” environmental policies
It's funny -- on the way to work today, I was thinking about a post on policies that would help the environment but are not traditionally thought of as "environmental." Then John pops up this morning with something very similar. So I guess it's in the air.
One of the common accusations against the environmental movement in the whole death debate was that enviros conceive of "the environment" too narrowly, and thus conceive of their political mandate too narrowly. They focus on technocratic policies about PPB of contaminants in water or new-source regulations on coal plants, instead of trying to build a broad progressive movement.
So. What are some policies that most people would not label "environmental," but which would benefit the environment? Off the top of my head I'd cite:
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The best ways to “fix” agriculture
Agricultural presents a particularly challenging set of environmental issues because of its complexity and the myriad ways agriculture affects environmental variables; from pesticides to soil erosion to water use, agriculture is by far the greatest human-induced alteration of the natural environment on the planet.
