Comments on: Reaganite supports science and reason at EPA http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/reaganite-supports-science-and-reason-at-epa/ For a thriving New England Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:46:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: D. R. Tucker http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/reaganite-supports-science-and-reason-at-epa/#comment-759 D. R. Tucker Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:28:00 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=3654#comment-759 As a Republican who’s embarrassed by his party’s cluelessness on this issue, I was thrilled to read the Ruckelshaus/Whitman piece. The GOP is now dominated by hyper-libertarians who believe that businesses have a right to pollute and that the federal government has no right to stop them. Whenever I hear Jim Inhofe or Fred Upton speak, I have a vision of Teddy Roosevelt spinning in his grave. I hope more sensible Republicans push back against the extreme libertarianism that fuels the hardcore right’s demonization of the EPA and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

]]> By: Frank Haggerty http://www.clf.org/blog/clean-energy-climate-change/reaganite-supports-science-and-reason-at-epa/#comment-757 Frank Haggerty Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:16:54 +0000 http://www.clf.org/?p=3654#comment-757 The EPA needs to review the toxic abandoned Cannon Street Power Plant on Pine Street in New Bedford,Massachusetts . This abandoned power plant is the most toxic power plant in a marine environment in the United States .

We need the abandoned toxic Cannon Street Power Plant in New Bedford cleaned up before a renewable energy ocean port is built next door to the plant .

The House in 1996 passed a plan that contained $300,000 to study the possibility of converting the toxic abandoned New Bedford power plant. The Cannon Street clean up documents already exist and are said to weigh twenty pounds.

Most private or nonprofit groups are unable to build any project on the site of Commonwealth Electric’s closed Cannon Street power station which contains fuel oil, tar, coal tar, cyanide, lead paint, asbestos, guano, asbestos, mold and heavy metals. No one wants to have to pay for the clean up of the site.

The CLF should leverge stimulus funds to clean up this plant .How can 600 million in stimulus funds go to new renewable energy projects while leaving a toxic abandoned power plant in New Bedford . This power plant is a hugh carbon foot print in the New Bedford area and should be refered to as a carbon boot !

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