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There’s Mercury in Them Gold Mines!

And the EPA wants to cut down the emissions.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, and not any Southern Nevada news outlets so far, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to place caps on the amounts of mercury that gold mines throughout the U.S.–and that means mostly Nevada–can spew into the air.

The costs of the clean up [...]

When It Comes to Recycling Trash, Nobody Beats Gibbons

How is it that one Gibbons’ idea always reminds us of the all the other nutty Gibbons’ ideas?

Take for example Gibbons’ plan to require that 75% of Nevada’s garbage be recycled or used for energy. Sounds all green and hippie and 21st century, don’t it? Why, it sounds like something a liberal might think of: including [...]

So, Who Wants to Hug Tom Collins?

So here's Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins, expressing his excitement with the thought Clark County won't be caring for abandoned desert tortoises anymore and his hatred of all small animals getting in the way of unrestricted development:

“This is almost like tree-hugger frustration. Can’t find no trees to protect in the desert so it’s tortoises.” [...]

Weekend Gubelets

Hmm. Henderson bank tanks and goes under new management. (RJ) Just the week before, John McGoiter's kid resigns from that very bank. (RJ) Hmm. Well, at least this gives the Senator an incentive to bail out the failing banking industry–or at least one bank in particular. In the highly unlikely event McSame should get elected, of [...]

Interview With a McFibbers

The Sun’s Phoebe Sweet recently grilled Nevada Conservation League Punching Bag Scot Rutledge about his organization’s incomprehensible passing grade on the environment for Smokestack Jim. (SUN).

Now, wouldn’t it be great if she could ask the Governor some of those tough questions she threw at Rutledge?

Well, maybe not…

Q. Governor, what do you say to environmentalists who say [...]

Fun Environmental Facts

Can’t wait to start pumping Northern Nevada and Utah dry to keep Bellagio’s fountain spraying? Well, there’s another reason to think carefully about pumping up ground water: it releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, that is dissolved as the water penetrates the ground. (RedOrbit) Yep, it looks like pumping reverses Nature’s [...]

F-!!

Give me a break Nevada Conservation League! C-? You gave Gibbons a C- for his continued War on Nature? What is that? Grade inflation?

Gibbons’ record:

vetoed one bill to help expand use of solar panels,
didn’t join the
Western Climate Initiative endorsed by most other neighboring governors
and
has continued to support construction of coal-fired power plants in
Nevada. (RJ)

So, what [...]

And Now the News…From an Alternative Universe…

Nevada Governor and Alternate Universe Historian Jim Gibbons’ uber-lawyer Abbe Lowell helps make Lady Justice weep.

Ugh:

The state’s Environmental
Protection Division has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas
emissions, but environmentalists say pressure from Gov. Jim Gibbons to
permit three coal-fired power plants before year-end will preempt it
from weighing in.

In fact, the governor could have pushed for delays [...]

Is Gibbons Channeling Al Gore Now?

The Sun tells us today that the Governor has accepted the scientific community’s view that global warming exists:

In announcing a Nevada Climate
Change Advisory Committee, Gibbons said he was "looking forward to
Nevada joining the world in its quest to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions."

Gibbons and his energy czarina Hetice Gecol had earlier claimed that one of the tasks of [...]

Coal To Ethanol Not So Good

Up in Minnesota, they not only make ethanol out of corn but soon out of coal as well.

Doug Tiffany, a biofuels specialist at the University of Minnesota,
notes other downsides to coal. A coal-fired ethanol plant is more
expensive to build, and, once built, it’s less flexible for future
expansion. Coal also is costly to ship.

Then there’s pollution.
Compared [...]