Hill Heat

From the Wonk Room.

The Obama administration “effectively called time today on one of the most destructive industries in America, proposing new environmental guidelines for mountaintop mining removal,” and also finalized new “fuel efficiency and emissions rules for America’s passenger vehicles,” its “first formal step to regulate global warming pollution.”

President Obama visited the Massachusetts’s flood-fighting headquarters yesterday, thanking workers for their round-the-clock efforts.

California remains in a drought despite extreme storms that ” has caused the worst damage and most significant beach erosion in at least a decade,” and China’s drought is “beginning to erode power production capacity.”