Report Describes How Energy Companies Bought EPA Officials
John Pemberton, a former EPA official now in the employ of Southern Company.Southern CompanyJohn Pembertonread more
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Kiss My Ash: How King Coal’s Lobbyists Are Undermining Coal Ash Regulation
Is this toxic sludge 'hazardous'? Coal lobbyists are doing everything they can to force the EPA not to regulate it. Photo credit.DeSmogBlog and PolluterWatch present:Coal Fired Utilities to American...
View ArticleCoal Ash: Blatantly and Egregiously Hazardous
For information on the coal industry's backroom lobbying to prevent the classification of coal ash as "hazardous," check out the recent DeSmogBlog/PolluterWatch report, Coal Fired Utilities to American...
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Duke Second-in-Command Resigns Amid Revolving Door Ethics Scandal
Utility executive to utility regulator: "Would the ethics police have a cow if you and the woman came up some weekend?"UPDATE 4/13/2012: The Indianapolis Star's John Russel has compiled a full...
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EPA Dramatically Inflates Economic Benefits of Recycling Coal Ash
Photo Credit: New York TimesAmerican Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyMassey EnergyPeabody EnergySouthern CompanyAnthony Kavanagh Baxter F. PhillipsBill...
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Gas Industry Conspires with Elected Officials to Stop EPA Regulation of...
wastewater from hydraulic fracturing In another explosive exposition of the natural gas industry, Ian Urbina of the New York Times documents how industry and elected officials kept EPA findings on the...
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Coal Lobby Loves Mercury
Crossposted from Greenpeace USA. American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyMassey EnergyPeabody EnergySouthern CompanyU.S. Chamber of CommerceAnthony Kavanagh...
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Halt Fracking! 68 Groups Say to Obama
The impact of fracking on clean water and health is questionable. Photo credit.Written by Kyle Ash, crossposted from Greenpeace USA.American Petroleum InstituteBPChevronConocoPhillipsExxonMobilU.S....
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Death Of A Talking Point? Regulations Actually Create Jobs
Written by Farron Cousins, crossposted from DeSmogBlog.ExxonMobilKoch IndustriesU.S. Chamber of CommerceCharles KochDavid KochKen CohenRex Tillerson Tom Donohueread more
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Degrading the American Dream: Inside Koch’s Americans for Prosperity Convention
Last weekend was a wild one for climate action in our nation’s Capitol, between the protest outside a conference run by Koch Industries front group Americans for Prosperity and Sunday’s large street...
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Jeffrey Holmstead: the Coal Industry's Mercury Lobbyist (REPORT)
See the new Jeff Holmstead Mercury InfographicUpdated Nov. 2012American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerDuke EnergyGenOn EnergySouthern CompanyJeffrey HolmsteadJohn...
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Obama’s “New” Climate Initiative
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Big Coal: decades of deception
Coal giant American Electric Power's slogan in the 70's. [See more advertisements at www.quitcoal.org/coalads]American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity ACCCEAmerican Electric PowerEdison...
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VIDEO: Coal Polluter Lobbyist Confronted at Energy Event
Today at a well-attended energy forum hosted by Politico, I shed some light on the role of coal lobbyist Jeffrey Holmstead in blocking pollution reductions for his coal utility and mining clients...
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DeSmogBlog: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination...
Originally posted by Steve Horn at DeSmogBlog.The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing that the Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored...
View ArticleWATCH: Rachel Maddow on Climate Denial & Tin Foil Hats
Last week, six Greenpeace activists attended a U.S. House Energy & Power Subcommittee hearing on President Obama's climate change action plan. We stood out--we wore tin foil hats to highlight the...
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NC to Duke Energy: Have You Dumped ALEC Yet?
Amid a dump of leaked American Legislative Exchange Council documents published by The Guardian last week, North Carolina is asking Duke Energy: Have you finally dumped ALEC?American Electric PowerDuke...
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Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Confronted for Blocking Global Warming Solutions...
Bracewell & Giuliani's Jeff Holmstead, hailing the escape cab that never showed up.If you're a coal lobbyist like Jeff Holmstead, getting stuck in an elevator with Greenpeace activists is an...
View ArticleMan Who Defrauded EPA calls EPA "Fraudulent" on FOX
If you're John Stossel and you want to host a segment to rail against the US Environmental Protection Agency, who ought you call?It turns out, a man who was convicted and sentenced to six months in...
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Coal Lobbyist Jeff Holmstead Disqualified by Federal Judge in Ameren...
Jeff Holmstead, confronted for interfering with climate change solutions, while trying to catch a cab.Jeff Holmstead, perhaps the nation's prime example of a revolving door lobbyist, was dismissed by a...
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