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What’s the Biggest Problem in the Delta?
As the Bay Delta Conservation Plan comes closer and closer to becoming a reality, the NorCal interests are getting more and more opposed. The Sacramento Bee is trying their best to poo-poo the idea that sewage, ammonia, pathogen and pharmaceutical pollution from their sewage treatment plant are to blame for the Delta’s demise, and are merely being used as misguided arguments by water… Read more »
How Long Will Wastewater Keep Killing the Smelt?
In December of 2010 the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously to require Sacramento to clean up their sewage discharges to the highest standards by removing the ammonia and other pollutants before discharging their sewage water into the Delta. Families Protecting the Valley, along with others, had pointed out through a marketing… Read more »
Keystone XL Pipeline Does Little Environmental Harm, U.S. Finds
The Obama administration today moved one step closer to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding in a draft environmental impact statement that the project would not accelerate global greenhouse gas emissions or significantly harm the natural habitats along its route. The report, done by the State Department, suggests that the proposed 875-mile pipeline, which… Read more »
The Energy Potential of Fracking
Say you were a politician, and there was a domestic energy source available that’s clean and abundant. One that has the potential to create new jobs and revitalize local economies. Would you do more to encourage it? Silly question, you may be thinking. Why wouldn’t you do more to encourage it? Well, this scenario is… Read more »
Gas Prices Soar 51 Cents in Just Two Months
Consumers are taking another huge hit in 2013. First, the two percent Social Security tax hike began the year. Now, gas prices are soaring ever closer to $4 a gallon and have jumped 51 cents a gallon since Dec. 20. According to the Oil Price Information Service, the national average for a gallon of unleaded… Read more »
Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business
In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9 percent). Why? One word: energy. As Nicolas Loris, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, writes in a forthcoming paper: Technological advancements in directional drilling… Read more »
SWRCB & FERC Want the Water Now and Will Look for the Benefits Later!
The State Water Resources Control Board is proposing to help fish by reducing average annual diversions on the Tuolumne River by 15% and on the Merced River by 13%. Critics say there are no estimates of what the benefits would be other than a vague “aim to improve conditions for salmon and other life” in… Read more »
Another Nail in the Coffin?
Do you know the difference between legislation and regulation? Legislation is passed as laws by a legislative arm of a government. After legislation is passed, there will be regulators, usually government bodies, who will examine the laws passed and work out the details that need to be enforced so that they are followed. This is… Read more »
Why All The Fuss? U.S. Carbon Emissions Lowest Since ’94
We don’t need more regulation of energy use, cap and trade, carbon taxes, or any of the range of new measures Obama is pushing to deal with climate change. According to Bloomberg News, US carbon emissions are down 13% over the past five years and that they are now the lowest since 1994. In fact,… Read more »
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resigns
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration’s chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect the nation’s economy and people’s health. Jackson constantly found herself caught between administration… Read more »
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