Frank O'Donnell

Frank O'Donnell

Frank O'Donnell
Hometown: Washington, DC
Interests: New Energy, clean air, Corruption, Global Warming, smog
Honors: 3

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  • Published Forgery Farce (Blog entry)
    August 6, 2009 - 10:43am

    One of the more macabre aspects of the still-evolving scandal involving the forged letters to Congress on the climate legislation was the disavowal of all responsibility by the Hawthorn Group -- the astro-turf lobbying group that has worked for nearly a decade to snooker public officials about allegedly "clean coal."

    Since 2000, Hawthorn has worked for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electrcity (ACCCE), the alliance of coal companies, coal-burning power companies and coal-hauling railroads that seeks to convince us that coal is "essential" to America's future.

    After the forgery scandal broke, Hawthorn quickly moved to blame its subcontractor, Bonner & Associates.

  • Published Who’s Trashing Green Jobs? (Blog entry)
    February 6, 2009 - 9:40am

    As the Senate continues to wrestle with the economic stimulus legislation, it’s been fascinating to note the counter-attack against the idea of “green jobs.”

    Just yesterday, for example, CNN followed a green pitch by President Obama with an interview with one Thomas Pyle, described as being with the “Institute for Energy Research.” (See transcript, below.) Pyle attacked the idea of

  • September 22, 2008 - 10:48am

    As you may be aware, Senator Boxer’s Committee on Environment and Public Works plans a hearing tomorrow on the topic of “regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.”

    http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Heari...

  • July 14, 2008 - 9:50am

    It's been an item of debate in D.C. circles for some time: who was really the worst head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency?

    Was it Anne Gorsuch Burford, who resigned from the EPA in disgrace after being cited for contempt of Congress?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3418-2004Jul21.html

  • Published Climate Kidnappers (Blog entry)
    June 3, 2008 - 8:59am

    In case there was any doubt about it, the White House has officially said President Bush would veto the so-called Lieberman-Warner climate bill, which the Senate took up yesterday.

  • Published No lung left behind (Blog entry)
    May 1, 2008 - 7:15am

    What we can learn from the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” report

    It has become part of the rites of Spring, along with television’s May “sweeps,” the Kentucky Derby, and Cinco de Mayo.

  • Published Turn out the lights! (Blog entry)
    April 1, 2008 - 9:23am

    It didn’t make headlines here, but maybe it should have: last week France and the United Kingdom signed a joint declaration pledging cooperation in the fight against global warming.

  • March 19, 2008 - 1:40pm

    Perhaps this is a good time to remind one and all of little-told stories that can have a big impact on the air we breathe -- and even see.

  • March 12, 2008 - 5:53pm

    Well, it was bad enough that the Bush administration chose to disregard the advice of EPA's own independent science advisers in setting a weak new national health standard for ozone.

  • February 19, 2008 - 3:25pm

    A year after Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar -- amid expectations that the champagne toasts and trendy carbon-neutral academy ceremony might shame our lawmakers to move quickly on global warming -- Congress still appears to be waiting for someone to yell “action!”

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