Big Hollywood » Ann McElhinney  » James Cameron – I Accept

“I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads.” –James Cameron

James Cameron I accept your offer, I’ll even drive myself to your gigantic gated Malibu double mansion to shoot it out.
...
So again James Cameron I accept your invitation and I will participate in a public discussion. I think it’s important for the man who uses 1000% more mined resources than the average American, lives in a home 1000% bigger than the average American and drives/flies 1000% more than the average American to explain how the Average American is destroying the planet.

Van Jones: Clean energy “will be increasingly safe political ground for both parties” | Grist

There are good reasons for the United States to be a world leader on clean energy. We have a Saudi Arabia of solar power, not just in the Sun Belt but on rooftops across America. We’ve got a Saudi Arabia of wind power in the plain states, near the Great Lakes, and off our coasts.

Hey, Van:  If I live in "a Saudi Arabia of solar power", why isn't there enough solar energy to melt the snow off my roof for months at a time?

Whoops: Energy Star approves gas-powered alarm clock | Grist

Well this is embarrassing: Federal monitors granted the Energy Star stamp of approval to a number of bogus appliances, including a gas-powered alarm clock and an electric space heater with a feather duster taped to it.

[Jobs, jobs, jobs]: EPA proposes revoking permit for mountaintop mine - The Hill's E2-Wire

EPA proposed on Friday to "significantly restrict" or stop altogether a controverisal mountain top mining project in Logan County, West Virginia, approved for operation three years ago. *

The Spruce No. 1 mine, owned by Arch Coal, is one of the largest mountaintop mines ever proposed in Central Appalachia and posed significant risks to the environment, EPA said. The project won permit approval in 2007 but has been delayed from opening by litigation. A public comment period lasting 60 days now follows EPA's proposal, to be followed by a final decision.

EPA's decision marks the first time the agency used its veto authority under the Clean Water Act to stop a project previously approved.
...
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) also criticized EPA’s decision.

“I have said this before, and will say it again: it is wrong and unfair for the EPA to change the rules for a permit that is already active,” Rockefeller said in a statement.