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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | |
| 3:58 pm | Obama appoints Big Coal's Joseph Pizarchik to run Surface Mining Reclamation `  ` Mountaintop removal coal mine in southern WV encroaching on a small community. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has weighed in on President Obama’s nomination of Joseph Pizarchik to run the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. President Obama’s choice to run the Office of Surface Mining signifies that campaign promises to end environmentally destructive coal mining practices, such as mountain-top removal, will be abandoned. Placating the coal industry is evolving into the central plank of the administration’s environmental agenda. PEER said that, while running Pennsylvania’s mining regulatory program, Pizarchik has been “solidly pro industry” on topics like acid mine drainage, longwall subsidence, and using mining slag for valley fills. In particular, PEER noted: Pizarchik has become a leading advocate for disposal of toxic industrial coal ash in coal mine sites, contending that it is a “beneficial use” of the same coal combustion waste involved in the disastrous TVA spill this past December. PEER also noted: Perhaps most disturbingly, during his August 6th confirmation hearing Pizarchik claimed ignorance on the issue of mountain-top removal or what changes the Obama administration might propose, since that mining technique is not widely used in his state. Given his industry orientation and the administration’s aversion to reformers, it would be more than mildly surprising for Pizarchik to ultimately take a strong environmental stand once confirmed. The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources has yet to vote on his nomination. Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER, said: It is appointments like this that are causing many to become disillusioned with the Obama presidency. Putting forward a nominee who claims ignorance on a central issue so that his true position cannot be discerned is the sort of cynical politics I thought President Obama vowed to change. `  ` It’s been nearly nine months since a TVA coal-ash impoundment in east Tennessee collapsed, shocking the nation with news of a little-notice threat to the coalfield health, environment and public safety. The story shows no signs of going away, as environmental groups dog the issue and press the Obama administration EPA to take strong action to regulate toxic power plant waste. `  ` Just this week, Earthjustice and other groups released more information they obtained from EPA that details the serious nature of the problem. And over last weekend, The New York Times provided a look at another side of the story: The Alabama community where the TVA is hauling the nasty stuff it cleans up from the east Tennessee disaster. Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting place, the Arrowhead Landfill here in Perry County, which is very poor and almost 70 percent black. To county leaders, the train’s loads, which will total three million cubic yards of coal ash from a massive spill at a power plant in east Tennessee last December, are a tremendous financial windfall. A per-ton “host fee” that the landfill operators pay the county will add more than $3 million to the county’s budget of about $4.5 million. The ash has created more than 30 jobs for local residents in a county where the unemployment rate is 17 percent and a third of all households are below the poverty line. A sign on the door of the landfill’s scale house says job applications are no longer being accepted — 1,000 were more than enough. But some residents worry that their leaders are taking a short-term view, and that their community has been too easily persuaded to take on a wealthier, whiter community’s problem. “Money ain’t worth everything,” said Mary Gibson Holley, 74, a black retired teacher in Uniontown. “In the long run, they ain’t looking about what this could do to the community if something goes wrong.”  ` MORE BOOKS book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell book: Greenwash, The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism; by Jed Greer http://www.stopgreenwash.org book: Earthsummit.Biz: Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development; by Kenny Bruno book: Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration, and Other Forms of Corporate Bullying book: When Miners March; by William C. 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Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative. `  School Buses switch to Bio Diesel SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES http://solarafrica304.livejournal.com/6 VEGETABLE OIL BUSES and Cars VEGETABLE OIL CONVERSION KITS for BUSES & Cars http://plantdrive.com http://www.greasecar.com http://www.vegpoweredsystems.com http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com http://www.goodgrease.com http://www.vegpower.com http://www.elsbett.com http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.c http://biocar.de http://www.enviofuel.com http://www.frybrid.com http://www.vegiecars.com http://www.vegetable-oil-conversio http://www.theorganicmechanic.org http://www.fattywagons.com RUDOLF DIESEL - INVENTOR of DIESEL VEGETABLE OIL CAR http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.htm POLLUTION: PETROL versus HEMP OIL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24451.htm VEGETABLE OIL AUTOMOBILES - Part 1 http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25641.htm VEGETABLE OIL Cars Links http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24880.html HOW TO CONVERT USED COOKING OIL into FUEL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/8194.h ~ books: The Teapot Dome Scandal, How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country; by Laton McCartney Secret History of the American Empire; by John Perkins Family of Secrets, The Bush Dynasty; by Russ Baker Restoring The Creation Mandate; by Roger L. 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"An excellent education for those remaining Americans who still do not understand that right-wing politicians take from those who work and give to those who live in luxury off the sweat of others." - American Chronicle ( April, 2008) Nomi Prins did her field work for "Jacked." This is a book filled with the voices of people living on the margins who Prins interviewed in more than 30 states. It's the voice of America you hear but rarely in the mainstream media...--BUZZFLASH `  ` Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government; by David Cay Johnston Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org `  The War at Home: the Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. 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| Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | |
| 5:53 pm | Obama appoints Big Coal's Joseph Pizarchik to run Surface Mining Reclamation `
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Mountaintop removal coal mine in southern WV encroaching on a small community.
The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has weighed in on President Obama’s nomination of Joseph Pizarchik to run the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
President Obama’s choice to run the Office of Surface Mining signifies that campaign promises to end environmentally destructive coal mining practices, such as mountain-top removal, will be abandoned.
Placating the coal industry is evolving into the central plank of the administration’s environmental agenda.
PEER said that, while running Pennsylvania’s mining regulatory program, Pizarchik has been “solidly pro industry” on topics like acid mine drainage, longwall subsidence, and using mining slag for valley fills. In particular, PEER noted:
Pizarchik has become a leading advocate for disposal of toxic industrial coal ash in coal mine sites, contending that it is a “beneficial use” of the same coal combustion waste involved in the disastrous TVA spill this past December.
PEER also noted:
Perhaps most disturbingly, during his August 6th confirmation hearing Pizarchik claimed ignorance on the issue of mountain-top removal or what changes the Obama administration might propose, since that mining technique is not widely used in his state. Given his industry orientation and the administration’s aversion to reformers, it would be more than mildly surprising for Pizarchik to ultimately take a strong environmental stand once confirmed. The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources has yet to vote on his nomination.
Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER, said:
It is appointments like this that are causing many to become disillusioned with the Obama presidency. Putting forward a nominee who claims ignorance on a central issue so that his true position cannot be discerned is the sort of cynical politics I thought President Obama vowed to change.
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It’s been nearly nine months since a TVA coal-ash impoundment in east Tennessee collapsed, shocking the nation with news of a little-notice threat to the coalfield health, environment and public safety.
The story shows no signs of going away, as environmental groups dog the issue and press the Obama administration EPA to take strong action to regulate toxic power plant waste.
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Just this week, Earthjustice and other groups released more information they obtained from EPA that details the serious nature of the problem.
And over last weekend, The New York Times provided a look at another side of the story: The Alabama community where the TVA is hauling the nasty stuff it cleans up from the east Tennessee disaster.
Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting place, the Arrowhead Landfill here in Perry County, which is very poor and almost 70 percent black.
To county leaders, the train’s loads, which will total three million cubic yards of coal ash from a massive spill at a power plant in east Tennessee last December, are a tremendous financial windfall. A per-ton “host fee” that the landfill operators pay the county will add more than $3 million to the county’s budget of about $4.5 million.
The ash has created more than 30 jobs for local residents in a county where the unemployment rate is 17 percent and a third of all households are below the poverty line. A sign on the door of the landfill’s scale house says job applications are no longer being accepted — 1,000 were more than enough.
But some residents worry that their leaders are taking a short-term view, and that their community has been too easily persuaded to take on a wealthier, whiter community’s problem.
“Money ain’t worth everything,” said Mary Gibson Holley, 74, a black retired teacher in Uniontown.
“In the long run, they ain’t looking about what this could do to the community if something goes wrong.”
School Buses switch to Bio Diesel
SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES
http://solarafrica304.livejournal.com/6
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Jacked: How Conservatives Are Picking Your Pocket - Whether You Voted for Them or Not; by Nomi Prins
Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org
http://www.nomiprins.com
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Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government; by David Cay Johnston
Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org
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The War at Home: the Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush; by Jack Rasmus
Book Preview: amazon.com video.google.com
War on Terror, Inc. - Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear; by Solomon Hughes
info: books.google.com redpepper.org.uk
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Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA; by Peter Lance
Book Preview: amazon.com peterlance.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org
DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car?
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electr
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Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives; by Edwin Black
Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org
http://www.internalcombustionbook.c
Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD's Name on it?
book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell
book: Moving Mountains; by Penny Loeb
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.htm
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SHOCKING CORRUPTION by BIG OIL
http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com
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WIND 101
http://pickensplan101.livejournal.c
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http://www.pluginamerica.org
http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.ht
SOLAR Heated SWIMMING POOLS, Spas, Hot Tubs, GREENHOUSES and Buildings
http://www.warmwater.com http://www.canadiansolartechnologi
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TAX CREDITS
http://www.dsireusa.org
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Billion Dollar Solar Power farms
http://air306.livejournal.com
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SolFocus Aims to Beat Coal and Natural Gas with Solar Concentrators
http://air302.livejournal.com
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Parabolic Trough Solar Electric Generating Systems
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Ron Paul's introduced H.R. 1009:
The Industrial Hemp Farming Act
Campaign for LIBERTY
http://hemp3000003.livejournal.com/7 |
