BlueHerald 2.0

It’s gonna be awful pretty to look up at the Great Smokey Mountains one day and see treeless humps.
Tennessee turned their backs on Gore in 2000 and voted for shit-head instead. I wonder how they’ll feel once their main source of tourism-dollars is gone?

Opposition mounts to clean air change affecting parks
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Critics [...]

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From TPMMuckraker:

EPA Chief Slow Walks CO2 Rule
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson will not be rushed, no sir. We gave you the rundown earlier this month of how Johnson had managed to ignore a landmark Supreme Court ruling. The EPA could no longer avoid taking a stance on whether greenhouse gases were covered by the Clean Air [...]

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…And wildlife suffers. The nerve this bastard has:

Ozone Rules Weakened at Bush’s Behest
The Environmental Protection Agency weakened one part of its new limits on smog-forming ozone after an unusual last-minute intervention by President Bush, according to documents released by the EPA.
EPA officials initially tried to set a lower seasonal limit on ozone to protect wildlife, [...]

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This is so stupid it makes my head hurt. A Honda Civic Hybrid owner is suing Honda over their mileage [...]

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By JOHN M. BRODER
from The New York Times

WASHINGTON, July 5 - After a concerted lobbying effort by property developers, mine owners and farm groups, the Bush administration scaled back proposed guidelines for enforcing a key Supreme Court ruling governing protected wetlands and streams.
The administration last fall prepared broad new rules for interpreting the decision, handed [...]

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“His genius… is that he builds networks and puts the right people in the right places, and then trusts them to make well-informed decisions that comport with his overall vision.”
Paul Hoffman, Interior Department, on VP Cheney

No doubt he makes Rove smile! Can you imagine just how worse things would be if our dear president wasn’t [...]

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