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NYT: "The Environmental Protection Agency rejected on Thursday a request to cut the quota for the use of ethanol in cars, concluding, for the time being, that the goal of reducing the nation’s reliance on oil trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn."

I don't care anymore that "this is what they did to us."  Read more…

Henry Waxman (Actual Member in Good Standing of the Democratic Party, representing the Golden State) is interested in how the EPA arrived at a decision to not protect California's environment as much as Californians would like to...

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson demanding "all documents relating to the California waiver request, other than those that are available on the public record." Read more…

Must have missed this one. NPR not teh suck on this one. Steve Curwood from Living on Earth"

The latest allegations involve two top environmental regulators. Former Deputy Interior Secretary, J. Steven Griles has been under investigation in connection with the Jack Abramoff lobbying affair. Now it turns out that Mr. Griles and his girlfriend, Sue Ellen Wooldrige, purchased a million dollar beach house with Donald Duncan. He's a vice president of Conoco Phillips, the nation's third largest oil company.

This is just a little crass, even for the anti-Democrats, eh? Read more…

I don't know if there's a chance this will really happen, but let's hope some ambitious prosecutor decides to make some hay out of throwing this sell-out, lying bitch in the slammer. I just read yesterday that something like 7 out of 10 responders to 9/11 can't be heard when they speak, their lungs are so fucked up:

Democrats from New York and New Jersey asked on Wednesday for an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christie Whitman for breathing problems suffered by thousands after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read more…