Weekly Mulch: When Will Our Water Be Clean?

Will the EPA bow to industry pressure and authorized a disastrous mountain-top removal at Spruce Mountain? Rainforest Action Network (RAN) takes action to call attention to the issue.

Via Climate Progress/The Wonk Room: “…Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is promoting a two-year moratorium on EPA climate action.” He has support from other Senate Democrats.

Government interest in fracking has brought about some studies. The proprietary ingredients in the fluids will be listed. There may even be some regulation of an industry with less oversight than the banks.

The anger and courage of Americans who have been expressing opposition to the coal industry and expending energy to chip away at the power coal companies have to destroy America’s environment is paying off.

What does it take to ban a toxic pesticide (like arsenic)? A lot, it turns out.

The list of bedrock American laws that Rand Paul is opposed to keeps growing longer. In addition to the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Paul has made it clear that he doesn’t like the Clean Air Act either. Last weekend, Paul said that President Obama should leave Kentucky alone, especially when it comes to pollution. “You need to keep the EPA out of our affairs,” he called on the president.

The cost of raising chickens in this country by commercial outfits should include dealing with the waste products, but it doesn’t because these companies will not take responsibility. And in the meantime, pollution reigns.

More fuckery from British Petroleum and the government that represents them-U.S.A.

But President Pinocchio, How Can the Oil be Gone and the Oily Fish Good to Eat?! — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)