David Cassuto
From the Things that Never Would Have Happened Under W Desk:
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has withdrawn its Biological Assessment and the EPA has also withdrawn the air quality permit they respectively issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant sited for the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region of New Mexico. The reason(s): concerns about the impact of heavy metals on two species of endangered fish in the San Juan River.
Sometimes I have to read news like this a few times and remember that the long, savage assault on the natural environment that was 2000-08 has indeed come to a close. Continue reading
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