http://www.observer.com/term/u.s.-environmental-protection-agency en http://www.observer.com/2009/public-service-and-private-greed <img src="/files/article/kennedy_320.jpg" /><p class="MsoNormal c1">On Election Day in 1960, my family placed a hand lettered sign in our living room window on East 59th street in Brooklyn that read “Kennedy for President”. A few months later, as a seven year old boy, I remember watching President Kennedy on our black and white television ask us to pledge “what we could do for our country”. It was a thrilling, inspiring moment. I think that...</p> http://www.observer.com/2009/public-service-and-private-greed#comments AIG Bonus Scandel AmeriCorp Program Barack Obama Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs free market John F. Kennedy Orin Hatch public service Steve Cohens Blog Super Fund Toxic Waste Clean Up Ted Kennedy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Virginia Fox Wall Street Water Pollution Control Program Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:48:48 -0400 http://www.observer.com/2009/public-service-and-private-greed http://www.observer.com/2008/green-day-march-13-2008 <img src="/files/article/davidpaterson.jpg" /><p>Paterson will be a strong governor from an environmental standpoint, but he's no Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to an analysis of his record by Jerome Woody. [grist.org]</p> <p>Last night, the E.P.A. announced "a modest tightening" of its smog standard, despite the unanimous call of the agency's scientists to adopt a more protective standard. [<em>The New York Times</em>]</p> <p>But fourteen New York counties don't even meet the slack standard set last night. [News10Now (Central New York)]</p> <p>Lobbying by labor...</p> http://www.observer.com/2008/green-day-march-13-2008#comments Arnold Schwarzenegger Bruce Fowle David Paterson Green M. Jodi Rell New York Times Round-Up U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:46:45 -0400 http://www.observer.com/2008/green-day-march-13-2008 http://www.observer.com/node/31919 A reader caught this interesting part of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinion from the court's decision to push the Bush administration EPA to monitor gasses that affect global warming. <p>"Not only is EPA's interpretation reasonable, it is far more plausible than the Court's alternative. As the Court correctly points out, 'all airborne compounds of whatever stripe,' ...would qualify as"physical, chemical, . . . substance[s] or matter which [are] emitted indoor otherwise ente[r] the...</p> http://www.observer.com/node/31919#comments Politics Antonin Scalia Frisbee Politics Daily U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:00:00 -0400 http://www.observer.com/node/31919 http://www.observer.com/node/28264 The New York Press a couple of weeks ago had a brief story about a new counter-terror strategy: taking down all the street signs. An NYPD spokesman was quoted saying, "Street-sign removal is an effective security option with a proven track record. It's the same thing the English did in London during the Blitz. They removed the street signs to confuse German paratroopers, and it worked." It was, you may have gathered, a joke. But apparently,... http://www.observer.com/node/28264#comments Politics Harry Siegel London New York City Police Department Politics Daily U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:45:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/28264