"Stupid" goes viral: Climate Zombies of Kansas, Nevada, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Tennessee | Grist

I'm tracking Climate Zombies: every Republican candidate for House, Senate, and governor who doubts, denies, or derides the science of climate change. Today, a look at five states turns up one Republican who worries about his carbon footprint and a second who's acknowledged climate science in the past.

EPA: Republicans blitz Obama over 'anti-industrial' regulations

With the November midterm election nearing, Republicans in Congress are focusing their fire on U.S. EPA, describing the agency's regulations on greenhouse gases and air pollution as the product of a "job-killing" Obama administration.

City called “grossly negligent” for not clearing snow from laneway - thestar.com

Between 2003 and 2008, lawsuits springing from slip-and-fall incidents on icy city sidewalks are estimated to cost the city more than $30 million after all the bills are paid. The city released the figures after the Star filed a freedom of information request in January 2009.

There were 533 sidewalk slip-and-fall claims during the harsh winter of 2008.

Toronto spends $12 million a year cleaning and salting three-quarters of the city’s 8,000 kilometres of sidewalks. It calculates that extending sidewalk snow removal to all neighbourhoods would cost another $7 million to $8 million a year.

Rick Boucher talks politics as he seeks 15th term | TriCities.com

On the greenhouse gas regulatory scheme that passed the U.S. House but hasn’t been taken up in the Senate, commonly called “cap and trade,” Boucher said the country is headed in the worst possible direction. That, he said, is regulation by the EPA, which is what will happen if Congress does nothing.

He said Congress has the ability to impose a more balanced program, and he was asked by the coal industry to actively engage in the process to get the best deal he could for coal. He believes he has done that in the House bill. The industry knew, he said, that to work for that deal he’d have to vote for the bill.