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July 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Maybe there’s a collection of wingnuts from Texas who ventured an opinion.
I’m sure he’ll be signing onto their lawsuit any time now.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I’ve yet to see anything from Panagiotakos that would impress me. I hope someday soon you’ll have better representation.
July 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
When politics meets science, science takes the back seat.
Cheney pushed for cutting health officials climate testimony, former official says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed for major deletions in congressional testimony on the public health consequences of climate change, fearing the presentation by a leading health official might make it harder to avoid regulating greenhouse gases, a former EPA officials maintains.
When six pages were cut from testimony on climate change and public health by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last October, the White House insisted the changes were made because of reservations raised by White House advisers about the accuracy of the science.
But Jason K. Burnett, until last month the senior adviser on climate change to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson, says that Cheney’s office was deeply involved in getting nearly half of the CDC’s original draft testimony removed
July 10th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Maybe the Senator, who I respect quite a bit but disagree with on taxation issues, realized that this bill was a direct attack on local communities control over their own zoning.
If a town has an industrial zone, and wants to use it as such, it is wrong for the state to overrule it zoning.
Modify the site placement criteria that a town must follow (conservation issues, wetlands, etc), I might (might) agree with.. but not a specialized modification of zoning to appease one constituency.
At some point, we need to let the towns and cities make decisions for themselves and stop letting the state dictate to us.
In this case, I think he is right.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Shawn, when it comes to the public health, the state (and the federal government) has a right to make sure localities do the right thing.
It’s not like we don’t elect state and federal representation, though you act like it.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am
We haven’t heard communities objecting to protection of their public health. Nor have we seen a line of towns saying “ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!” to have a power plant put in their community.