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Idle hands …
Does anyone care about Marc Morano's hack blasts any more? He's now flinging lies at Bob Herbert's wan little column on global warming, which to me gives the distinct odor of busywork.
Maybe if we all just ignore him, Inhofe will put him to work doing something else. Hey, I hear the pesticide industry is in need of some FUD.
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Seattle’s papers catch up with electric cars
Here in Seattle, we have two daily papers. They're embroiled in a seemingly endless joint-operating dispute. I don't know the ins and outs of the deal, being a relative newcomer to the city, but I do know this: every morning at the bus stop, as I review the front pages displayed in the papers' side-by-side machines, I marvel at their attempts to tell the same stories in different ways.
Today, for instance, both front pages featured huge, splashy photos of our visit from the Blue Angels -- but with different headlines, people! Different headlines! And there, at upper left, each had a plug for an article on an electric car. The Times went with the Tesla, while the P-I featured the Zap! Xebra. (Both PDFs, sorry.)
Semi-funny, yes. But it's also an indication of how far we've come. This is the dawning of the age of the curious. Better to have two papers reporting on this kind of thing than none.
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Meet your meat
Meat.org has a new video. I've pasted it below the fold. Not for the weak of stomach.
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Break on Through to the Other ‘Cide
EPA proposes ban on two toxic pesticides, limits on use of many others As part of a congressionally mandated 10-year review, the U.S. EPA this week recommended banning two particularly […]
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Friedman At Last, Friedman At Last
Federal judge whacks EPA for foot-dragging on toxic air pollution This week, a federal judge administered a well-placed kick to the rear end of the U.S. EPA, blasting the agency […]
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YouTube faux-amateur slander from the halls of DCI
An unspeakably stupid video about Al Gore and penguins has been floating around YouTube for a while. Over at The Wall Street Journal, Antonio Regalado and Dionne Searcey pulled off a crackerjack bit of reporting, tracing the author to an email address, an email address to an IP address, and ...
... the email originated from a computer registered to DCI Group, a Washington, D.C., public relations and lobbying firm whose clients include oil company Exxon Mobil Corp.
You don't say.
DCI runs Tech Central Station, the notoriously bought and paid for opinion outlet. ("TCS is supported by a small group of sponsors: the American Beverage Association, ExxonMobil, Freddie Mac, General Motors Corporation, Gilead Sciences, McDonalds, Merck and PhRMA.")
Somebody's paying for adolescent, faux-amateur, "viral" smears. Wonder who?
Video below the fold:
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Federal judge rips EPA a new one
Over on E&E News (paid subscription only), Darren Samuelsohn reports that a federal judge has applied his boot to the derriere of the U.S. EPA:
A federal judge lashed out at U.S. EPA yesterday for pursuing industry-friendly regulations at the same time it missed statutory deadlines to control toxic air pollution from small industrial plants.
Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia criticized EPA for focusing on other priorities as opposed to issuing regulations that address about a third of toxic air pollution.
"EPA has been grossly delinquent in making serious efforts to comply" with the Clean Air Act, Friedman said in his 28-page opinion (PDF).And he put some oomph behind it:
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Rifkin’s in my head
Wow, this is a fantastic interview with Jeremy Rifkin. I was only peripherally aware of the guy, but damn, he's mirroring my entire worldview (no wonder I like it!). He's got the exact right idea, about sequestration and clean coal, about nuclear, about distributed generation, smart grids, you name it. I kept highlighting parts to excerpt, but I ended up highlighting the whole thing. Here's a bit:
