Pollution
June 25, 2010--Senate panel advances anti-pollution bill (Washington Post)
The nation would impose tougher penalties on polluters under legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bill would require restitution to victims when oil companies or others violate the Clean Water Act, the nation's primary law against water pollution. Currently, restitution is not mandatory. Another provision would direct the U.S.
August 22, 2009--Alaska weighs in on new federal oceans policy (Los Angeles Times)
With the world's oceans facing mounting threats from pollution, climate change and overfishing, the Obama administration held the first of several public hearings intended to help it draft a coordinated policy for managing the health of the seas.
August 2, 2009--Sun splits water for a cleaner, brighter tomorrow (Telluride Daily Planet)
On Tuesday, Nocera will present the Pinhead Town Talk, "Personalized Energy: A Carbon-Neutral Energy Supply for Each Individual (x 6 Billion People)." He will illuminate how his revolutionary invention cap
July 15, 2009--Salazar: Now's the time to revamp 1872 mining law (Denver Post)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday set the stage for a
July 1, 2009--With something for everyone, Climate Bill passed (NY Times)
As the most ambitious energy and climate-change legislation ever introduced in Congress made its way to a floor vote last Friday, it grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts
June 27, 2009--House passes climate bill (Durango Herald)
In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims
November 19, 2008--EPA weighs relaxing air rules (Denver Post)
The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants, oil refineries and other major polluters near national parks and wildernes
September 16, 2008--Pine River watershed improving (Durango Herald)
The upper Pine River watershed, battered for years by pollution from outside the area, wildfires, drought and flooding, is recovering slowly, a 2008 status report says.
