Tuesday, March 24, 2009
News / Clout City The EPA steps it up--finally
Posted by Mick Dumke on 03.24.09 at 03:04 PM
It’s looking like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will finally face the scientific facts and recognize that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and other greenhouse gases aren’t good for us.
Still, despite the alarm sounded by some powerful business interests, there’s little chance that the country’s climate change problems will be addressed primarily through some kind of heavy-handed enforcement system. Unless I’m giving them too much political credit, the Obama administration is moving aggressively in order to prod Congress to do something more feasible and effective.
And they've got to do it fast. The central issue isn’t that the world is threatened by a bunch of environmental bad guys, though undoubtedly some are out there. It’s that we aren’t paying the full long-term cost of producing greenhouse gases, and we don’t have time, for health or economic reasons, to see if tree-hugging goodwill will someday triumph over market factors. Somehow the price of polluting—along with the savings of not polluting—has to be more accurately reflected in economic decision-making, whether it’s through heavy regulation or, more likely, a cap-and-trade system, an emissions tax, tax credits for high performers, or a combination of these and other approaches.
As an initial step, the EPA may soon require fuel and energy companies, manufacturers, and other industries to report exactly how many greenhouse gases they’re emitting. The agency already tallies up the annual nationwide figures, which provide a glimpse of the activities that would be most impacted (i.e., costly) under any kind of serious new system.
| SOURCE | EMISSIONS (MILLIONS OF METRIC TONS) | SHARE OF TOTAL |
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| ELECTRICTY GENERATION--COAL | 1967.6 | 27.6% |
| INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY | 857.2 | 12.0% |
| PASSENGER CARS | 625 | 8.8% |
| LIGHT-DUTY TRUCKS | 522 | 7.3% |
| MEDIUM- AND HEAVY-DUTY TRUCKS | 407.4 | 5.7% |
| ELECTRICITY GENERATION--NATURAL GAS | 373.8 | 5.2% |
| RESIDENTIAL HEAT AND ENERGY USE | 340.6 | 4.8% |
| COMMERCIAL HEAT AND ENERGY USE | 214.4 | 3.0% |
| AGRICULTURAL SOIL MANAGEMENT | 207.9 | 2.9% |
| COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT | 153.6 | 2.2% |
| METHANE PRODUCED BY LIVESTOCK | 139 | 2.0% |
| LANDFILLS | 132.9 | 1.9% |
| NATURAL GAS SYSTEMS | 104.7 | 1.5% |
| MANURE MANAGEMENT | 58.7 | 0.8% |
| COAL MINING | 57.6 | 0.8% |
| ELECTRICITY GENERATION--PETROLEUM | 55.3 | 0.8% |
| IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION | 52.2 | 0.7% |
| RAIL | 50.8 | 0.7% |
| CEMENT PRODUCTION | 44.5 | 0.6% |
| WASTEWATER TREATMENT | 29.3 | 0.4% |
| PETROLEUM SYSTEMS | 28.8 | 0.4% |
| WASTE INCINERATION | 20.8 | 0.3% |
| RECREATIONAL BOATS | 17.1 | 0.2% |
| BUSES | 12.1 | 0.2% |
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| TOTAL | 7125.2 | 100.0% |
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Al Sanchez is a criminal and all around horrible human being for many reasons beyond what came up at trial or the charges or convictions. Al Sanchez has an interesting history since he brought money to the El Rukn street gang with than State Rep Larry Bullock at the behest of his then master Ed Vrdolyak--the money for the El Rukns was for them to support Jane Byrne in 1983--the El Rukns (former Black P Stone Nation) including the Apache Rangers took the money and supported Harold Washington. Al Sanchez ran on the Solidarity ticket with Ed Vrdolyak against Harold Washington in 1987 (I can't remember if it was for City Clerk or City Treasurer) and than became a Republican. Sanchez remained a Republican and Vrdolyak aligned for only a short period of time because he quickly went with Mayor Richard M. Daley in time for his 1989 mayoral victory through a deal for jobs brokered by Gilbert "Chiefy" Delgado aka "Thiefy" (a long criminal record--and known as a theif) and Mayoral Boss Tim Degnan. A brief digression here--Gilbert "Chiefy" Delgado aka Thiefy's brother Dominic Delgado had Delgado erection and got lots of political affirmative action contracts through Victor Reyes but also since the days of Vrdolyak being in charge. An investigation just into the Delgado contracts would reveal a lot. Senator Tim Degnan from Bridgeport was known as a degenerate gambler and was into the outfit for 90G back in the late 70s and early 80s. Degnan had an outfit bookie and a major gambling problem. Degnan is involved with Roti relative Tommy DiPiazza aka Tommy D on the Brideport Village deal. Degnan along with Freddie Barbara (identified in Family Secrets Frank Calabrese trial as a made member of LCN and committed violent acts including arson in an Elmwood Park restaurant and extortion), Al Sanchez and Victor Reyes have a very kinky deal going with ALLIED WASTE--so don't worry about Statute of Limitations or that Reyes or Degnan are out of government. Degnan is the power behind the thrown and the shadow mayor along with Jeremiah "Jerry" Joyce. HDO was created by Degnan and used by Degnan and Joyce and is about as far from "Latino empowerment" as you get. Al Sanchez is a unique scumbag insofar as he is an alcholic (well documented in arrests, car accidents and plenty of eye witnesses), cocaine addict (he hooked his wife and she died--the story of his wife's death is a story in and of itself), drunk driver, violent, bad drunk, power drunk, power hungry, mean, loud mouthed, vindicitve, low class individual. Just google or Lexis some old news articles about Al Sanchez crashing his car and a shadow car leaving the scene where he was not the driver (city car) or getting pulled over and accusing the cop of racism on the tollway and saying "do you know who I am" or bar fights, car crashes, drunk driving pull overs that disappeared--read the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Daily Southtown--or talk to cops willing to talk. Al Sanchez and most of the HDO guys were pigs. Aaron DelValle was the guy who went drunk with a gun to the towing pound after a political event with State rep and cop Eddie Acevedo and threatened the workers and tried to get their car out of the tow, punched a cop and sued the city for abuse and got thrown out of court. Real scumbags. Al Sanchez got plenty of drug dealers jobs like Gil Valadez (allegedly just lost his CTA job and previously lost his city job for not revealing he was a convicted felon--he smoked a crack rock on CTA time) Gil Valadez was not only a drug dealer but also an informant. GILBERT VALADEZ federal felony convict in federal penitentary and rat. Larry "the Beaver" Diaz is another story and more on that later. Also Ray Gamboas youthful indiscretions are interesting. The gang ties are interesting. Friends of Al's wife Tina want to know if he knew about Flo or Maria Nino (who became the bigshot at Personnel and was involved in taking out Ray Frias in 2003) Al Sanchez would raise money on city time (just ask Marshall Villanueva). Thiefy Delgado would extort money on his birthday and always want cash in a mean thuggy way. Al Sanchez knew about money for jobs, sex for jobs, bribes, extortion, misuse of city services, drug dealing, drug use, gang affiliations, beating people up, adultery, picking up garbage for favored private businesses, plowing snow for favored restaurants. Al Sanchez is proud of the job he did at Streets and Sans but garbage is terrible in many parts of a very dirty city (not just the front of downtown and Lincoln Park) Al Sanchez ruined the Blue Bag recycling program. Al Sanchez increased taxpayers property taxes as well as fees with questionable and corrupt towing practices, recycling, and Hired Trucks. Al Sanchez dealt intimately with Angelo Torres the former gang banger of Hired Trucks fame. Al Sanchez also dealt with HDO member and donor to HDO and former 2-6 gang banger Tony Munoz--George Prado and his heroin dealing ring. Al Sanchez hired Roberto "Bobby Bull" Aguilar who served 80% of a 5 year Federal drug charge and former drug dealer.
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So now that another clearly obvious example of FRAUD in the life of mayor daley has been exposed, lets begin to focus on ways that we can as taxpayers begin to reverse the corrupt culture that this silly litttle child has benefited from for so long. 1) Fire all employes's hired under these fraudulent acts. 2) Repeal the non-disclosure of "professional contracts" law which daley put in place. 3) Audit all dept's with an outside independant Auditor not from Chicago. 4) Demand that your alderman craft a document calling for daley to be removed from office (those ALDERMAN who refuse will be easily cast aside when daleys reign is over) 5) NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR THE CHILD OF A CAREER POLITICIAN. We as taxpayers must now accept the facts that surounding this corrupt individual. His entire political career is a fraud, backed by gang bangers, thugs, dope dealers and mobsters. It is now our duty as AMERICANS to stop the circumvention of our Constitutional Rights and hold this TRAITOR accountible. HDO- HELP DALEY OUT (OF OFFICE)
