More Environmental Protection From Obama Administration
Continuing one of the best months of the Obama Presidency, the President took a couple of actions last week to protect the environment:
President Obama announced he was withdrawing a pristine and ecologically rich region of Alaska from any future oil and gas development. Using section 12 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama signed a memorandum removing Bristol Bay, a 52,000-square-mile area off Alaska’s southwest coast, in order to “take it off of the bidders block and make sure it is preserved for the future.”
and:
Click here for reuse options!The Obama administration on Friday announced the first federal regulations for disposal of coal ash from power plants in an attempt to shield the environment from the toxic substance.
The new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets structural integrity standards for all existing and new disposal sites to reduce the chances that they will leak or break. It also requires that new coal ash ponds be lined and not located in sensitive areas like wetlands and earthquake zones.
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By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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tiredoftea December 22nd, 2014 at 17:04
Sen. Inhofe, the Koch and oil company puppet Senator and soon to be Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee chairman will make every effort to roll this back!
tiredoftea December 22nd, 2014 at 18:04
Sen. Inhofe, the Koch and oil company puppet Senator and soon to be Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee chairman will make every effort to roll this back!
neworleans878 December 22nd, 2014 at 17:11
Great. Just great. With all these new regulations, I’ll never become part of the 1% that RW media promises me I will be one day!
Thanks, Obama! And you too, mea_mark!
mea_mark December 22nd, 2014 at 18:57
The 1% is rotten to the core, I really am doing you a favor. This way you will be free from all the worlds worst problems being part of your karma.
neworleans878 December 22nd, 2014 at 19:31
I’ll take my chances, thank you very much!
nola878 December 22nd, 2014 at 18:11
Great. Just great. With all these new regulations, I’ll never become part of the 1% that RW media promises me I will be one day!nnnThanks, Obama! And you too, mea_mark!
mea_mark December 22nd, 2014 at 19:57
The 1% is rotten to the core, I really am doing you a favor. This way you will be free from all the worlds worst problems being part of your karma.
nola878 December 22nd, 2014 at 20:31
I’ll take my chances, thank you very much!
tracey marie December 22nd, 2014 at 17:30
BOOM, SPLATTER, CRASH…The sounds and effects of goptp heads exploding
tracey marie December 22nd, 2014 at 18:30
BOOM, SPLATTER, CRASH…The sounds and effects of goptp heads exploding
R.J. Carter December 22nd, 2014 at 17:39
Dateline, Washington – December 12, 2014 “Energy and fuel prices are dropping! WTF, people? Get me my pen and my phone, right away!”
R.J. Carter December 22nd, 2014 at 18:39
Dateline, Washington – December 12, 2014 “Energy and fuel prices are dropping! WTF, people? Get me my pen and my phone, right away!”
Obewon December 22nd, 2014 at 20:12
Palin’s Bristol Bay is finally off the market! Smells like teen fisheries are far more valuable than a leaky old decrepit pipeline, that’s been running on empty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
Obewon December 22nd, 2014 at 21:12
Palin’s Bristol Bay is finally off the market! Smells like teen fisheries are far more valuable than a leaky old decrepit pipeline, that’s been running on empty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
Foundryman December 23rd, 2014 at 01:23
Great, this is sure to cause another Palin family drunken brawl.
Foundryman December 23rd, 2014 at 02:23
Great, this is sure to cause another Palin family drunken brawl.
eyelashviper January 3rd, 2015 at 11:37
Hallelulah, such good news. Wish we could stop the destruction of the rain forests of the world, which is a disaster in the making for the entire world.
Koch Bros and Big Energy, along with Rio Tinto mining are the really bad guys and need to be reigned in everywhere.
eyelashviper January 3rd, 2015 at 12:37
Hallelulah, such good news. Wish we could stop the destruction of the rain forests of the world, which is a disaster in the making for the entire world.
Koch Bros and Big Energy, along with Rio Tinto mining are the really bad guys and need to be reigned in everywhere.