Posts Tagged Maryland

Bill in MD Legislature Pushes Anti-Science Conspiracies and Urges EPA to Delay Climate Regulations

Posted by Editor on Tuesday, 2 March, 2010

Here is the synopsis:

Urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction policies and programs and to withdraw its endangerment finding and related regulations until a full and independent investigation of the climate change conspiracy and science can be undertaken.

And here is the full bill:


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Judd Legum, a candidate for state delegate, has a petition opposing this legislation. The petition states:

I oppose Ron George’s carbon emissions resolution because I care about the Chesapeake Bay and reject anti-environment extremism.

You can sign the petition here.


Clean Coal in the Dominican Republic

Posted by Josh on Saturday, 7 November, 2009

Clean Coal is awesome:

It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach brought the black dusty residue to the province of SamanĂ¡, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped.

A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of waste dumped at the Arroyo Barril port has made people nearby sick. After years of repeated miscarriages, women whose blood levels show abnormal levels of arsenic are giving birth to babies with cranial deformities, with organs outside their bodies or missing limbs.

The ash, a concentrated form of naturally occurring contaminants, is what is left over from burning coal for power. It usually contains arsenic, lead, cadmium, chromium and nickel. But as towns in Tennessee and Maryland clean up massive spills of the substance, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to rule on whether it should be classified as hazardous — which would be a tremendous blow to influential power companies that have long lobbied against such a classification.

Learn more about clean coal.