Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

Good news on environmental front

This is no small matter — and one of the few tangible payoffs of having a Democrat in the White House. From The Washington Independent:

Following through on earlier promises, the Environmental Protection Agency today approved a request by the state of California to fight global warming by reining in auto emissions.

As Mike Lillis points out,

Because 13 other states and the District of Columbia have jumped on California’s waiver proposal, the move effectively creates a new national emissions standard that will force the nation’s automakers to make more fuel efficient vehicles.

This is probably better news than the passage of the climate change legislation, which has been watered down, because it bypasses the moderates in Congress and allows the more populous, environmentally conscious states to drive the bus, so to speak.

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