09.30.2009 1:44 pm

Gephardt: “Obvious” that health reform will pass

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

Dick Gephardt

WASHINGTON — Dick Gephardt receives a lot of money these days for the advice that the people of his St. Louis congressional district got free for 28 years.

His Gephardt Group lobbying firm is raking in millions, he’s on the board of Ford Motor Co., among other…

Tags: climate change, Dick Gephardt, DLA Piper, Ford Motor Co., Gephardt Group, global warming, Peabody Energy, Senate Finance Committee, st. louis

03.24.2009 4:29 pm

Coal gets a jolt from EPA decision

By Sean Rose

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

A mountaintop removal site in West Virginia. Photo courtesy of Vivian Stockman/Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition

WASHINGTON — The politics of coal may have changed drastically today after the Environmental Protection Agency released two letters criticizing potential mountaintop removal mine sites.

One of the two proposals is…

Tags: Clean Water Act, coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Mountaintop removal, Peabody Energy

Gephardt: “Obvious” that health reform will pass

Coal gets a jolt from EPA decision

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