Comments on: Coal Insiders Writing EPA Reports http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/ Sun, 27 May 2012 09:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mountain Mourning : NO QUARTER http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1324724 Mountain Mourning : NO QUARTER Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:09:14 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1324724 [...] details of execution. The execution is left to the governing executive agency. I have written about how coal lobbyists sit in the EPA and write the rules for execution and prosecution. This is how safety rules are made in the office of Mine [...] [...] details of execution. The execution is left to the governing executive agency. I have written about how coal lobbyists sit in the EPA and write the rules for execution and prosecution. This is how safety rules are made in the office of Mine [...]

]]> By: henry http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1304443 henry Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:22:24 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1304443 Judge dismisses permit case against Amish farmer Friday, January 29, 2010 10:54 PM <a href="http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_04832252-0c99-11df-86a9-001cc4c03286.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_04832252-0c99-11df-86a9-001cc4c03286.html</a> Samuel Stolzfus claimed he could not sign the application because he didn't know whether he could adhere to the permit requirements and it is against his religion to lie. anything I say may be used against me Judge dismisses permit case against Amish farmer

Friday, January 29, 2010 10:54 PM

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_04832252-0c99-11df-86a9-001cc4c03286.html
Samuel Stolzfus claimed he could not sign the application because he didn’t know whether he could adhere to the permit requirements and it is against his religion to lie.
anything I say may be used against me

]]> By: henry http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1304267 henry Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:44:25 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1304267 One of the first acts of the former governor of illinois was to take on his father in law over his management of a firm that handled disposal of hazardous waste.   One of the first acts of the former governor of illinois was to take on his father in law over his management of a firm that handled disposal of hazardous waste.  

]]> By: henry http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1304260 henry Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:20:47 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1304260 "The bill prohibits labeling a product as Wisconsin certified honey or implying that a product is Wisconsin certified honey, unless the product has been determined by testing to meet the standards established by DATCP, DATCP has approved a summary of the testing, and the product was produced in this state." An expensive bar to a local farmer labeling his own honey, honey. But the bill is far more than intrusive and unnecessary and even more than a possibly insurmountable financial bar because the bill includes the following stunning sentence: The bill also prohibits labeling a product as honey <b>or implying that a product is honey</b>, unless the product meets the standards established by DATCP. “The bill prohibits labeling a product as Wisconsin certified honey or implying that a product is Wisconsin certified honey, unless the product has been determined by testing to meet the standards established by DATCP, DATCP has approved a summary of the testing, and the product was produced in this state.”
An expensive bar to a local farmer labeling his own honey, honey.
But the bill is far more than intrusive and unnecessary and even more than a possibly insurmountable financial bar because the bill includes the following stunning sentence:
The bill also prohibits labeling a product as honey or implying that a product is honey, unless the product meets the standards established by DATCP.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1304222 Anonymous Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:42:40 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1304222 Eastan, You use the tried and true NQ method of selectively picking your info in order to push the NQ narrative of trashing Obama. Lisa Jackson is incredibly transforming the EPA, after it being trashed and gutted under Bush. I suggest you read this article to get a little context. Yes, there is a lot more to do, but a lot has been accomplished in less than the year she has been in place Read this:  <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31820267/the_ecowarrior" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31820267/the_ecowarrior</a> " In her first year on the job, Jackson has not only turned the page on the industry-friendly and often illegal policies of the Bush era, but has embarked on an aggressive campaign to clean up the nation's air and drinking water. Under her leadership, the EPA has sought stricter limits on toxic pollutants like mercury, moved to scrub emissions of arsenic and heavy metals from coal-fired plants, and revoked a permit for the nation's largest mountaintop-removal coal mine." "Today, environmentalists who fretted openly about Jackson's nomination are almost unanimous in singing her praises. "Parts of the environmental community were skeptical of her appointment," says Buck Parker, former executive director of the environmental-law firm Earthjustice. "But she's fantastic. Gutsy. Acts in accordance with what she says. She's proving to be one of the bright lights of the administration."" Eastan,

You use the tried and true NQ method of selectively picking your info in order to push the NQ narrative of trashing Obama.

Lisa Jackson is incredibly transforming the EPA, after it being trashed and gutted under Bush.

I suggest you read this article to get a little context. Yes, there is a lot more to do, but a lot has been accomplished in less than the year she has been in place

Read this:
 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31820267/the_ecowarrior

” In her first year on the job, Jackson has not only turned the page on the industry-friendly and often illegal policies of the Bush era, but has embarked on an aggressive campaign to clean up the nation’s air and drinking water. Under her leadership, the EPA has sought stricter limits on toxic pollutants like mercury, moved to scrub emissions of arsenic and heavy metals from coal-fired plants, and revoked a permit for the nation’s largest mountaintop-removal coal mine.”

“Today, environmentalists who fretted openly about Jackson’s nomination are almost unanimous in singing her praises. “Parts of the environmental community were skeptical of her appointment,” says Buck Parker, former executive director of the environmental-law firm Earthjustice. “But she’s fantastic. Gutsy. Acts in accordance with what she says. She’s proving to be one of the bright lights of the administration.”"

]]> By: ciic http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303973 ciic Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:31:12 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303973   top  edhardy   underwear www.lookedhardy.com   top  edhardy   underwear
http://www.lookedhardy.com

]]> By: EllenD http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303953 EllenD Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:17:25 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303953 My gosh this is depressing. Is no one working on some way of using or disposing of this stuff that doesn't kill people? My gosh this is depressing. Is no one working on some way of using or disposing of this stuff that doesn’t kill people?

]]> By: henry http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303934 henry Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:25:22 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303934 <a href="http://www.sludgenews.org/news/press.aspx?id=14" rel="nofollow">http://www.sludgenews.org/news/press.aspx?id=14</a> Contaminated sludge could poison the land it's supposed to be fertilizing. The sludge was to blame in both of the Augusta cases in which hundreds of cows died.The city of Augusta recently settled a lawsuit with dairy farmer Andy McElmurray over his dead cows for $1.5 million. Former dairy farmer Bill Boyce won a $550,000 court judgment against the city for the deaths of more than 300 of his cows. the level of thallium -- an element once used as rat poison -- found in the milk was 120 times the concentration allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency. "senior EPA officials took extraordinary steps to quash scientific dissent and any questioning of EPA's biosolids program."The program is still in effect. http://www.sludgenews.org/news/press.aspx?id=14
Contaminated sludge could poison the land it’s supposed to be fertilizing. The sludge was to blame in both of the Augusta cases in which hundreds of cows died.The city of Augusta recently settled a lawsuit with dairy farmer Andy McElmurray over his dead cows for $1.5 million. Former dairy farmer Bill Boyce won a $550,000 court judgment against the city for the deaths of more than 300 of his cows. the level of thallium — an element once used as rat poison — found in the milk was 120 times the concentration allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency. “senior EPA officials took extraordinary steps to quash scientific dissent and any questioning of EPA’s biosolids program.”The program is still in effect.

]]> By: Glennmcgahee http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303865 Glennmcgahee Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:23:12 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303865 I heard him say that "we have cleaned it". This is not including the speech I heard but demonstrates his hypocrasy nonetheless. <a href="http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/667" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/667</a> I heard him say that “we have cleaned it”. This is not including the speech I heard but demonstrates his hypocrasy nonetheless.
http://www.ecogeek.org/component/content/article/667

]]> By: Coal Insiders Writing EPA Reports : NO QUARTER « Internet Cafe Solution http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1288832 Coal Insiders Writing EPA Reports : NO QUARTER « Internet Cafe Solution Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:14:27 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1288832 [...] See original here:  Coal Insiders Writing EPA Reports : NO QUARTER [...] [...] See original here:  Coal Insiders Writing EPA Reports : NO QUARTER [...]

]]> By: Eastan McNeal http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303807 Eastan McNeal Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:56:59 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303807 It is in state govt where you will find true corruption.  Very little help there.  This issue needs to be addressed over state lines.  Coal ash is sold to and used by megafarms as a soil additive and the food grown in that soil is in almost every store in the country.  No.  We need the EPA to spend less time impressing the world with how we cleaned up the air in Norway and more time thinking about the earth and water here in the U.S.  Though I would have picked someone with more proven management experience and a better history of performance on behalf of the people, I admit that we have what we have and all we can do is call for Jackson to DO HER JOB. It is in state govt where you will find true corruption.  Very little help there.  This issue needs to be addressed over state lines.  Coal ash is sold to and used by megafarms as a soil additive and the food grown in that soil is in almost every store in the country.  No.  We need the EPA to spend less time impressing the world with how we cleaned up the air in Norway and more time thinking about the earth and water here in the U.S.  Though I would have picked someone with more proven management experience and a better history of performance on behalf of the people, I admit that we have what we have and all we can do is call for Jackson to DO HER JOB.

]]> By: Guest http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303791 Guest Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:24:49 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303791 She promised the industry would be subject to hazardous waste standards for coal ash by the end of 2009 <b>.....</b> But that didn't happen. Or was this a regulatory determination as to whether or not it's hazardous in the first place ?? Can anything be implemented at the state level ? She promised the industry would be subject to hazardous waste standards for coal ash by the end of 2009 ….. But that didn’t happen.

Or was this a regulatory determination as to whether or not it’s hazardous in the first place ?? Can anything be implemented at the state level ?

]]> By: jbjd http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303790 jbjd Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:20:26 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303790 Got it.  Thank you. Got it.  Thank you.

]]> By: Eastan McNeal http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303789 Eastan McNeal Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:16:39 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303789 When Obama talks about "clean coal" technology, Glen, he usually is refering to pumping the exhaust from the smokestacks underground or "sequestration."  Carbon capture and storage does not address the fly (coal) ash, nor does it keep mountains from being blown away.  Plus, nobody is sure how long the co2 will stay underground before seeping out.  But it makes the folks in Danmark smile for the cameras. When Obama talks about “clean coal” technology, Glen, he usually is refering to pumping the exhaust from the smokestacks underground or “sequestration.”  Carbon capture and storage does not address the fly (coal) ash, nor does it keep mountains from being blown away.  Plus, nobody is sure how long the co2 will stay underground before seeping out.  But it makes the folks in Danmark smile for the cameras.

]]> By: Eastan McNeal http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/41531/coal-insiders-writing-epa-reports/#comment-1303787 Eastan McNeal Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:10:59 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=41531#comment-1303787 jbjd.  I am not sure that making her the subject, under a spotlight, would contribute to the purpose of this post - bring awareness of a problem.  Though it was light and sideways, I did indicate in the beginning that she should know better.  One could go ahead and say the obvious.  Either she is aware of and going along with this crime or she is not paying attention and is therefor unworthy of her top administrative position. jbjd.  I am not sure that making her the subject, under a spotlight, would contribute to the purpose of this post – bring awareness of a problem.  Though it was light and sideways, I did indicate in the beginning that she should know better.  One could go ahead and say the obvious.  Either she is aware of and going along with this crime or she is not paying attention and is therefor unworthy of her top administrative position.

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