Tag Archives: environment

Coal company burned by ‘free inhalers’ prank

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Mark Shenefelt

A major coal company offers free asthma inhalers for kids living near smoke-spewing power plants? That might strike one as a particularly lame attempt at damage control. In a cleverly executed hoax, an environmental group created a website depicting a … Read More

Tagged air pollution, asthma, coal, coal plants, Elmo, environment, Environmental Protection Agency, hoax, Justin Bieber, Peabody Energy, solar power, Why are you crying?, wind power

Lawmaker Laughs: Another Tea Party ripoff, clean stemware?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Charles Trentelman

Hooboy, the fun never stops. On the state and federal level, the people who get themselves elected on promises of being smart, and reasonable, and representative, waste no time showing their true colors: Stupid, unreasonable if not whacky, and representing … Read More

Tagged Blogging the Rambler, environment, flouride, politics, Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, Sarah Palin, Sen. Mike Lee, tea party, Utah Legislature

Uncle Sam saves a little Utah flower

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Mark Shenefelt

Federal agencies are trumpeting their 25-year successful program to bring back a Utah desert flower from the brink of extinction. The Maguire daisy has been removed from the government’s endangered species list. Protection began in 1985 after the flower’s survival … Read More