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FORTUNE Brainstorm GREEN conference opens in Laguna Niguel

The FORTUNE Brainstorm GREEN conference started out with a bang today in Laguna Niguel, California as Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp blasted Exxon, Big Oil, the coal industry, and lawmakers on Capitol Hill for their efforts to dramatically weaken the power of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Coincidentally, today Japan began dumping about 11,500 metric tons of radioactive water (about 3 million gallons) into the sea, a process that is expected to take about 50 hours to complete. The immensity of the Pacific Ocean is expected to quickly dilute the radioactive water to harmless levels, but bioaccumulation will have to be monitored in food chains.

Still, it is instructive to see how the nuclear industry “solves” its problems! :-) (Note added April 5, 2011: Japan’s ocean radiation hit 7.5 million times the legal limit for iodine-131 and 1.1 million times the legal limit for cesium-137, which has a much longer half-life.)

Coincidentally, Earth Day will also be celebrated soon, on April 22 this year.

Back in Laguna Niguel, Krupp said:

“Never in four decades has there ever been this brazen assault on the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to protect our health.” “In the House they’ve already passed an amendment that would mean the EPA couldn’t enforce its effort to clean mercury from the air.”

Some lawmakers on “both sides of the aisle” (read: BOTH Democratic and Republican illiterate “maroons“) are trying hard to strip the authority of the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, as ordered by the courts, after EPA ruled that the gases are a danger to public health.

And while they are on a “roll,” such legislators are trying to “roll back” other regulatory responsibilities of the EPA….

How FAR back…? To the Dark Ages or to the Stone Age…?

Krupp further stated:

Exxon wants that this big loophole of not having to clean up its emissions to continue,” he said. “That’s the biggest subsidy for the oil companies, that’s the biggest subsidy for the coal companies, the fact that they’re not required to have their products burn cleanly.”

Exxon thinks that Congress, not EPA, is the appropriate body to address comprehensive U.S. energy and climate policy. :-)

I’ll BET! :-) Heck, Exxon would probably put money on it, too! :-)

The CNN Money article has other quotes from Krupp and a link to Poppy Harlow’s entire video interview.

-Bill at

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