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Hickenlooper Not the Only Government Official Trying to Frack Colorado
By Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director This piece originally appeared on Huffington Post Over the past few weeks, Colorado's Governor John Hickenlooper has gotten a lot of negative attention. First, for telling a U.S. Senate committee that he drank Halliburton's frack fluid; second, for threatening to sue the City of Fort Collins for its ban on fracking. But Hickenlooper isn't the only government official trying to frack Colorado. Helen Hankins, who directs the Colorado office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), has also been in the very-uncomfortable glare of public fracking
A Great Choice for Our Environment
By Cindy Luppi, New England Regional Director Gina McCarthy Today President Obama nominated Gina McCarthy to be the Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We couldn’t be more thrilled with the selection. We’ve worked with Gina throughout her career in New England and she is a committed professional who has led the fight to protect our air and water. We know she’ll do a great job as the head of as she EPA. McCarthy has served as Deputy Administrator for Air and Radiation under Administrator Lisa Jackson, helping develop critical clean air standards, including rules
And, here come the cuts.
Instead of cutting vital programs - end the subsidies! By Michael Kelly, Director of Online Communications Well, at least we know where Congress stands now. Today our Representatives and Senators chose the status quo and $8 billion in subsidies to Big Oil over funding for programs that protect the health of our water and funding for national parks and forests. They went with Big Oil over programs for food safety and air traffic controllers. They even chose Big Oil over the military. Over the next few weeks, as Congress allows its mandatory across-the-board budget cuts (aka “sequestration”) to
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Minnesota 2023 PFAS Prevention Package: Amara's Law
In 2023, Minnesota passed the strongest PFAS prevention legislation in the country. The legislation was named Amara's Law after Amara Strande, a young woman who grew up in an area contaminated by PFAS and diagnosed with an exceedingly rare form of cancer. Amara advocated and testified in support of the bills banning all non-essential use of PFAS chemicals, requiring manufacturers who are selling products in Minnesota to disclose if PFAS chemicals are present, and to close a loophole in the 2019 bill that ended the use of PFAS in firefighting foam.
