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Federal Judge Rules On FEMA Blundering
Today a federal judge ruled that FEMA will have to immediately begin paying back rent to thousands of hurricane Rita and Katrina survivors.
Judge Richard J. Leon of federal district court in the District of Columbia, wrote that FEMA must also improve its appeals process. Evacuees have long complained of mountains of red tape, that make it almost impossible to get help.
from here
“It is unfortunate, if not incredible, that FEMA and its counsel could not devise a sufficient notice system to spare these beleaguered evacuees the added burden of federal litigation to vindicate their constitutional rights,” the judge wrote.
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Supreme Court To Hold Hearings On Carbon Dioxide
Today the supreme court tackles the issue of global warming, specifically if the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide. 12 states, three cities, 13 environmental groups and a ski resort want the EPA to cap the gas in an effort to help slow global warming. However the Bush administrations EPA says they don’t have the authority to regulate the co2 and even if they did the science isn’t “good enough” to know what to do about it.
At issue is a part of the clean air act that states..
2) In determining priorities for promulgating standards for categories of major stationary sources for the purpose of paragraph (1), the Administrator shall consider -
(A) the quantity of air pollutant emissions which each such category will emit, or will be designed to emit;
(B) the extent to which each such pollutant may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare; and
(C) the mobility and competitive nature of each such category of sources and the consequent need for nationally applicable new source standards of performance.
Section B leads many to assume that co2 is in fact a pollutant and does in fact need to be managed.
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American Involvement In Iraq Longer Than In World War Two
As of today, America has been involved in the war in Iraq longer than we were in world war two. As of yesterday American forces will have been in Iraq for 3 years and 8 months. A comparison to other wars:
- The Revolutionary War lasted for 8 years and 2 months.
- The American Civil War lasted 4 years, ending on April 9, 1865.
- The Spanish-American War began on February 15, 1898, and ended in the same year, on July 17.
- World War I lasted 4 years and just under 5 months.
- The U.S. role in World War II started in December of 1941; it ended with the Japanese surrender in 1945.
- The U.S. involvement in Vietnam lasted well over a decade, until Saigon fell to North Vietnam on April 30, 1975.
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