EPA response to the Gulf / BP oil spill:
See http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/ I know that the Administrator was down these in the last couple of days, and that there’s a huge gearing up on this issue.
Category: pollution
Let me get this straight:
I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all. But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]
Crashola: the new not-GM
Website for the remains of the old GM that they’re liquidating. Wanna buy a golf course or a Superfund site? At the first day of hearings on GM’s proposed asset sale restructuring chief Albert Koch estimated on June 30 that the company’s environmental liabilities for all sites are $530 million. Chief Executive Officer Fritz Henderson [...]
Air toxics:
Risk map setup from air toxics risks on causing cancer in the USA via the EPA: Parts of Los Angeles, Calif., and Madison County, Ill., had the highest cancer risks in the nation — 1200 in 1 million and 1100 in 1 million, according to the EPA data. They were followed by two neighborhoods in [...]
Isn’t that special?
Dow Chemical donating contaminated fish to the poor.
Another EPA Change:
The end of the ‘Performance Track’ program for self-’regulation’.
Crashola:
If the Seattle Press-Intelligencier survives the next month, it will be as a online paper only. Meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver is about to cease publishing. The new US government budget (PDF link) under Obama is going to cap federal employee raises (the automatic kind) to 2% next year; the base this last [...]
The Mystery of Canadian Chemical Weapons:
Well, they had them, and not all of them were found and properly disposed of, apparently….
Possbile changes at EPA:
Rumors about a new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. A typical approach has been playing out at the Environmental Protection Agency, where the Obama team is led by Lisa Jackson, commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and Robert Sussman, a former Clinton official and now a lawyer and fellow at the [...]
Another Superfund site. And I was there:
Article from a local newspaper about the groundwater contamination – in my neighborhood. Yes, I knew about this. Lockformer has a big sign out for 18 acres of property behind their factory for sale.
The limits of China:
Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road. Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter: Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths. Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by. Labor is starting to [...]
If you’re interested:
…here’s a way to have a way to buy a car you can fill up and run from your house system today, With some caveats.
Projects: overview
At various times, I get into research projects; some simmer on for decades in various forms, and some break off and pick up speed because I happen to run into something that really fuels the fire, so to speak. My library here is largely one that I use for reference. I have a huge amount [...]
The Separate Reality:
…and besides, unlike the wife, I’ve never gotten through his works. Regular readers will note that the tags I put on posts are plentiful and sometimes sound goofy; that may be because it’s conceptual shorthand to me. ‘kubler-ross’, ‘renmin’, or ‘sep_reality’, for example. The first has to deal with posts on death and dying, the [...]
Chinese timebombs:
Highly interesting thread in Randy McDonald’s LJ about the ticking timebombs of Chinese demographics and environmental pollution. In the former, you sit hard on increasing the population by limiting new births, which means that you end up with an oversupply of dateless young men and a large retirement-age population they have to help support. Happy [...]