Last week, I tweeted about Miramar landfill being the first municipal landfill in the nation to receive ISO 14001 certification. I was quoting the city from its own website, and was expressing concern that the request for qualifications for privatization of the landfill did not include the certification.
The Miramar landfill Environmental Management System website had the following statement in bold-face (see this screenshot):
“The Miramar Landfill is the first municipally operated landfill in the nation to earn ISO 14001 certification of an Environmental Management System!”
Today, the Miramar landfill website has been changed. There are no links to the Environmental Management System from the department’s homepage. And if you do type in the URL, the statement above has been removed.
With Peter Dreier.
In its first 100 days, the Obama administration did more to address global warming and the environmental crisis than the Bush administration did in eight years.
The new president is moving on many fronts. So far, Obama directed the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider California’s request to regulate pollution from auto emissions. He directed the Department of Transportation to finalize new fuel-efficiency standards. He made environmental progress a key feature of his first proposed federal budget by including tax breaks for clean energy research and eliminating a host of oil and gas industry tax breaks. The savings, along with revenues from Obama’s proposed cap and trade policy, will generate billions for renewable energy projects. And, he restored science to its rightful place in the formulation of environmental policy.
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