How the EPA Is Creating a Political Firestorm in Philly and Pennsylvania
As Mayor Michael Nutter’s national star continues to rise, Philadelphia is being touted as an extraordinarily ‘Green’ city by a federal agency that’s quickly become the most polarizing under President Barack Obama: The Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA just designated Philadelphia a “Green Power Community.” They note we’re the largest city...
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DAILY GRINDER: City Council Passes Resolution Supporting ‘Clean Air Act’
"Global warming just never stopped!" Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution yesterday supporting the use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. We’re now the 24th city in the United States to call on the EPA to work to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. According to CommonDreams, “Climate change in Pennsylvania will cause...
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DAILY GRINDER: Northeast Philly Woman Threatens Sen. Casey
A Northeast Philly woman was charged on Wednesday with threatening Senator Bob Casey. Ruby Marconi, 57, allegedly called Casey’s Washington office and told the Senator’s machine, “Hello Casey, you are going to pay for this … What the hell are you in office for, to go against President Obama?” She also noted, “You don’t think people are planning...
Continue ReadingEPA Releases Report on Water Contamination By Fracking, As GA Pushes Fee Bills
It must take a lot of balls to be a Republican leader – to be Caesar, with all eyes watching your every step, ready to pounce. Grover Norquist, for instance, is frothing at the mouth over Gov. Corbett’s readiness to sign a natural gas impact fee bill into law, accusing Corbett of breaking a no-tax pledge by instituting a fee on gas wells. Breathing down...
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SEPTA Gets $1.2 Million EPA Grant
SEPTA announced this morning that the Environmental Protection Agency is forwarding them $1.2 million to install new technology onto a 1950s-era locomotive that will reduce diesel emissions. The EPA-funded project will help SEPTA repower the engine of a conventional diesel maintenance locomotive with two generator sets (“GenSet”), and a diesel particulate...
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Mr. Nutter Goes to Washington: Philly Defends EPA Rule Against Conservatives
The Mayor’s Office sent out a press release today explaining that the city has intervened in Washington, filing “a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit yesterday… in defense of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).” “Studies have shown that the benefits of...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Iodine-131 Puts Hair on your Chest
So, the EPA has released more radio-water data, and guess what? We’re as toxic as they say. One of the released samples in which the Iodine-131 was below the safety limit was taken a month before the disaster in Japan. And “six of the seven highest concentrations of Iodine-131 in the EPA’s national drinking-water database were in Philadelphia.” Drink...
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Anonymous GOP Aide Proven Correct as Casey Joins Effort to Weaken EPA
Look at how bipartisan he is! Just like an anonymous GOP aide said he would back in January, Senator Bob Casey joined with Republicans and some “centrist” Democrats on Wednesday in the greater wingnut effort to destroy all regulations and progressive laws the extreme right doesn’t like. Though there are bigger fish to fry in light of today’s looming...
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