New EPA regulations target air, water, land and climate pollution from power plants, especially those that burn coal Electric power generation in the U.S. is shifting rapidly away from fossil fuels toward cleaner and lower-carbon sources. State clean energy targets and dramatic declines in the cost of renewable ... 05/1/2024 - 1:32 am | View Link
5 Takeaways from Our 25th Anniversary “State of the Air” Report Every year for 25 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from official air quality monitors to compile the “State of the Air” report. 04/30/2024 - 6:26 am | View Link
EPA limits 4 types of power plant pollution with sweeping rulemaking On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a suite of new rules aimed at dramatically reducing pollution from coal and natural gas fired power plants. 04/25/2024 - 11:33 am | View Link
EPA closes coal plant mercury emissions loophole Some power plants are losing a regulatory loophole that allowed them to emit disproportionately high levels of hazardous airborne mercury, with EPA’s new air toxics regulations released Thursday. 04/25/2024 - 6:42 am | View Link
Greater Houston has second-worst air quality in the country, analysis of EPA data shows The Houston region has the second-worst air quality in the country, according to a new report that used U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data to rank urban areas nationally. ANALYSIS: Houston is ... 04/23/2024 - 5:19 am | View Link
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) became the latest Republican to hit Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) over her plan to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), The Hill reports.
Said Crenshaw: “She needs her time in the spotlight, you know, and it’s been a while, and I think it’s one last ditch effort to get attention, is what she’s looking for.”
“Charlie Spies, the Republican National Committee’s chief counsel, was pushed out of his new role just two months after taking the job, amid a storm of controversy over conflicts involving other clients at the firm where he still works,“ the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Spies, a veteran election-law lawyer whom the R.
“On his first visit to Europe in five years, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance,” the New York Times reports..
“The Chinese leader has chosen three countries to visit — France, Serbia and Hungary — that each, to a greater or lesser degree, look askance at America’s postwar ordering of the world, see China as a necessary counterweight and are eager to bolster economic ties.”
Gary Moore is one of the least talked about guitarists of his time, but man could he rock.
Still Got the Blues For You is in my mind his signature track.
Music Radar conducted an excellent interview with Moore and he discussed his music and guitar playing in general.
Moore also has some advice for the prolix guitar player, and we have surely all been one, coming down with acute case of fretboard diarrhoea and using too many notes in our solos.
Take a phrase, says Moore, and work on it, playing around with all the different permutations, accenting the first, second, or maybe the last notes, working on the dynamics – these are all ways of workshopping your phrasing and learning how to make more out of something simple and familiar.