Udall Holds Oversight Hearing on Federal Efforts to Clean Up Uranium Contamination
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-NM), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children’s Health and Environmental Responsibility, held an oversight hearing yesterday on the status of cleanup operations at legacy uranium mining and milling operations in New Mexico and elsewhere in the United States. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) testified before the subcommittee about federal cleanup efforts.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Excellent development: The Bad River band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has won the right to set high water quality standards, thus making sure than any mines in the area would have to discharge only high-quality waste water.
As the
Journal Sentinel explains:
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
If you examine the Walker/Fitzgeralds' agenda and accomplishments [sic] to date- - the Voter ID bill locking in Republican advantages, a parade of business tax breaks, the shift of agency rule-making to the Governor's office, the management of the DNR with
a "chamber of commerce mentality," the easing of mining approvals and wetlands protections, the boosting of private school choice, the crippling of public employee unions and members' collective bargaining rights, the starving of local bus systems, outright killing of both a Madison-to-Milwaukee Amtrak extension and separate SE Wisconsin commuter train, and more - - there's only one way to interpret it:
The far right, with Walker as the front-man CEO, is re-shaping Wisconsin as a subsidiary of the private sector run by the Class "A," preferred shareholders - - the WMC, major conservative donors and Americans for Prosperity-type advocacy groups, and ALEC, which provides secretive, members-only ideological and technical guidance.
That group is rewarding itself with dividends guaranteed, across the board, by Walker, the Fitzgeralds and other compliant legislative/managers on behalf of the majority, controlling Class "A" shareholders.
Original Author:
(James Rowen)
More bills are tossed by the Governor and legislature into the special session on job-creating that have nothing to do with creating jobs except in
corporate donors' front-offices, lobbying, law and accounting firms.
Cue the campaign fund-raising letters - - so there may be a job or two added in the direct mail houses come election time.
The Journal Sentinel headline and deck describing this are direct and jaw-dropping:
Bills limiting lawsuits added to Legislature's jobs session
Measures would cut interest rate, curb medical cases
The Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters last week got it right:
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