Finally! Action on global warming!

Bruce Niles, writing for the Sierra Club and picked up by AlterNet, describes "a leaked Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) document" indicating "that the agency 'is fast-tracking its response to the Supreme Court's 2007 climate decision with plans to issue a mid-April finding that global warming threatens both public health and welfare.'"

The nay-sayers, hopefully, have had their day. For eight long, benighted years, the administration of Bush/Cheney not only denied the facts of global warming, but neglected to take any substantial steps to mitigate the problem. There will be, I'm afraid, a terrible price to pay for this neglect.

And while there may not yet be light on the horizon, there is a small glimmer of hope. As Niles says, "this action by EPA will set the stage for the first-ever national regulation of CO2 in US history."


Background: On April 2, 2007, the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA, determined that CO2 (carbon dioxide) "was a pollutant under the Clean Air Act" and "ordered EPA to determine whether CO2 endangered public health or welfare, and, if so, to begin regulating CO2.

"The Bush administration unlawfully ignored the decision for nearly two years, continuing its long campaign of denial, obfuscation, and foot-dragging on global warming and other key environmental issues."


The Obama administration is moving to correct this insanity and it looks like this particular aspect of our long national nightmare might be over!


You can read the entire article here.

Your government at work (BUT NOT FOR YOU!)

Ronald Reagan, once when he was awake, said something snide about government not being the solution to our problems, but rather that government was the problem.

Maybe he was right. Or maybe he was speaking of a government controlled by the Republican Party. That must be it. Government run by Republicans is always a problem. Especially of late. Hell, there isn't much government left. Bush and company have pretty well decimated it!

What follows, then, isn't surprising as the people responsible are Republicans working for the criminal Bush/Cheney regime.

1) According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is just fine that 20 million Americans are drinking water that has been contaminated with a rocket fuel ingredient. No problemo.

2) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has "ignored more than 100 scientific studies to declare the chemical bisphenol-A safe enough for babies, in whose plastic bottles and sippy cups it often appears." Hey, the Bushites always say science is for wusses. Ya gotta have FAITH!

3) The FDA again. Although "Women's exposure to phthalates, another common additive to plastics, was linked in Environmental Research to GENITAL DEFORMITIES IN THEIR BABY BOYS ... The FDA doesn't consider phthalates a safety risk. FAITH, baby!

4) More FDA. No need to label genetically engineered meat and other animal products, either, 'cause they pose no risk. More FAITH, baby!

5) The FDA says same is true of canned tuna, in spite of the fact that "CANNED TUNA IS HIGHLY CONTAMINATED WITH MERCURY. One out of five U.S. women of childbearing age has excessive amounts of the toxic element in her bloodstream." Show us your FAITH, ladies!


Methinks FAITH is gonna get you killed nowadays.


[Thanks to Sierra magazine, January/February 2009, p. 19]