Updated Rule Protects Public Health, Lowers Cost of Compliance – Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant on the Locust Fork River – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized revisions to Clean Air Act standards reducing air pollution from stationary engines that generate electricity and power equipment at industrial, agricultural, oil and gas…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
Federal Climate Assessment Panel Releases Dire Report for Public Comment
By Glynn Wilson – CAMP MCDOWELL, Ala. — How should Americans adapt to a changing climate in a hotter world? – A federal advisory panel released a draft report to the press on Friday that will be open for public comment Monday on how Americans can adapt to a changing climate. The report leaves little…
President Obama Calls to Congratulate Alabama’s Nick Saban on the BCS National Championship Win
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama called University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban to congratulate him and the University on once again winning the BCS National Championship, for the third time in four years. According to a readout from the White House, the President noted that this was the third time he’s made a…
Protest Rally for the Affordable Care Act Set for January 12 in Montgomery
There will be a protest rally for the Affordable Care Act on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery from 12 to 2 p.m. Saturday in response to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley’s failure to set up a plan for an insurance exchange or to expand Medicaid to comply with the law President Barack Obama…
Scotland to Celebrate 175th Anniversary of John Muir’s Birth
“One touch of nature makes all the world kin.” – John Muir, in The Cruise of the Corwin (1917) Chapter 3 (echoing William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”) – By Glynn Wilson – Under the Microscope – It has come to my attention that there will be…
Gallup Poll Shows Democrats Re-Gaining the Lead in Party Affiliation
Now 47 Percent Identify as Democrats or Lean That Way, While Only 42 Percent Identify as Republican or Lean That Way – By Glynn Wilson – It appears that the centrist course set by President Barack Obama in office and in the presidential campaign of 2012, and the decline of the radical tea party, are…
Alabama May Be Number One in Football
But It’s Also Home to The Number Two Worst Power Plant in the Country for Mercury Pollution – Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant on the Locust Fork River held the number one distinction for a few years – By Glynn Wilson – Alabama has a chance to be number one in the nation in football…
Transocean Pleads Guilty to Environmental Crime for Role in Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Company and Subsidiaries to Pay Record $1.4 Billion in Civil, Criminal Fines – BP’s oil still pollutes Gulf Shores beaches – By Glynn Wilson – Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties for…
Democrats in the U.S. Senate Save America Again
By Glynn Wilson – While all the attention the day after the first day of the new year is focused on the United States House of Representatives’ 257 to 167 vote to approve a budget agreement to prevent what pundits have been calling the “fiscal cliff” for months, it should be noted that it was…
