Analysis: Republicans turn sights on "activist" EPA

2011-08-16T11:30:14Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emboldened by their success wresting concessions from the Obama administration in debt-limit talks, House Republicans now plan an assault of similar vigor on the Environmental Protection Agency

US House votes to curb climate regulation

2011-04-07T18:30:31Z

The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill aimed at preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

The 255-172 vote in the Republican-held chamber came a day after the Democratic-led Senate rejected such a mov...

Senate rejects measure to stop EPA on climate

2011-04-06T15:00:12Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate rejected a measure on Wednesday to permanently stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions blamed for warming the planet.

The Senate rejected the measure sponsored by

The EPA has spoken and the news is not good.

2010-11-02T22:32:52Z

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Coal miners rally against Obama administration

2010-09-15T20:53:20Z

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What Is the Budget Process?

2010-11-05T11:13:17Z

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Newsbriefs

2010-11-02T15:38:07Z

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The eGovernment Revolution

2010-11-02T14:47:33Z

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Roundup 9/16: Assets Liquid and Illiquid Edition

2010-11-02T14:03:09Z

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Democratic EPA Moves Decisively on Coal

2010-10-22T15:17:46Z

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The Scott Brown Effect

2010-10-22T13:13:53Z

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Obama still wants Congress to pass climate law

2010-06-25T19:27:24Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama still believes that comprehensive energy legislation is the best way to tackle planet-warming gases, the White House said Monday.

Spokesman Robert Gibbs was responding to a new Md., Va. governors tell president $365M a year needed for bay restoration effort to succeed

Maryland and Virginia's governors told President Barack Obama $365 million a year in federal aid is needed to successfully implement the Chesapeake Bay restoration strategy he ordered earlier this year.

The...

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2010-10-26T23:05:08Z

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Key US Senate panel clears climate bill

2010-06-25T19:57:26Z

US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed a sweeping climate change bill through a key committee, shrugging off a boycott by Republicans who oppose the measure and mostly shunned the debate.

The Senate Environment and Public Wo...

Senate Democrats set climate bill industry permits

2010-06-25T20:10:15Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate will push climate change legislation that would grant, initially at no cost, pollution permits to an array of industries, similar to legislation passed by the H...

U.S. consumers spared big costs in climate bill

2010-06-25T21:11:58Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new U.S. government study on Tuesday adds to a growing list of experts concluding that climate legislation moving through Congress would have only a modest impact on consumers, adding around $100 to household costs in 2020.

Under the climate legislation passed by the House of Representatives in June, elect...

Farm State Wish List Could Hold Key to Waxman-Markey Bill

2010-10-24T09:56:39Z

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Victory for consumers

2010-04-16T11:59:49Z

State laws offering more protections will be respected under White House directive

It is only common sense that many federal laws, those on civil rights among them, should be consistently and strictly enforced throughout the country. But many federal laws not covering constitutionally protected freedoms should stand only as a minimum standard. Laws in that category should rarely contain language barrin...

U.S. Senate to debate nearly $40 billion for clean water

2010-06-25T22:23:13Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government could dedicate nearly $40 billion to improving drinking water and repairing sewers under a bill that was approved by the Senate public works committee on Thursday and sent to the full body for a final vote.

The roughly $37 billion bill is more than double the version approved by the Obama administration seeks to reverse Bush rule allowing mountaintop mining waste near streams

The Obama administration took steps Monday to reverse a last-minute Bush-era rule that allows mountaintop mining waste to be dumped near streams saying it was bad public policy.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the rule didn't "pass the smell test" and h...

EPA restores stricter reporting of toxic pollution

2010-04-16T14:43:23Z

EPA restores requirements for companies to disclose release of toxic chemicals

The federal government will once again require companies to fully disclose the toxic chemicals they release into the air, onto land and into water.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it was reversing a decision by the Bush administration in 2006 that redu...

Source: Fuel efficiency standard going up

2010-10-22T11:02:35Z

Source: New cars and trucks will need to reach 27.3 miles per gallon in 2011 model year

The Obama administration plans to raise fuel efficiency standards by 2 miles per gallon to 27.3 mpg for new cars and trucks in the 2011 model year, marking the first increase in passenger car standards in more than two decades.

Under the changes, which are slightly less stringent than those proposed by the Bush admin...

EPA reports uptick in some toxic chemicals in 2007

2010-04-16T15:58:04Z

While toxic releases declined in 2007, more long-lived chemicals entered the environment

Toxic chemical pollution from the nation's industrial plants, mines and factories declined by 5 percent in 2007, the government said Thursday.

Companies reported releasing 4.1 billion pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, water and onto land in 2007, down from 4.26 billion pounds in 2006.

Less pollution went into the nation's air and water. About a third of the c...

Court orders EPA to reconsider soot threshold

2010-04-16T14:06:11Z

Court asks EPA to better explain how Bush standard for soot protects public health

A federal appeals court is pressing the Environmental Protection Agency for a better explanation of how the Bush administration's limit on the amount of soot and dust allowed in the air protects public health.

The court returned the standard to the EPA on Tuesday, arguing th...

Obama seeks tougher controls on mercury emissions

2010-04-16T14:45:50Z

Obama administration to seek tougher controls on mercury, scrapping Bush administration plan

The Obama administration signaled Friday that it will seek more stringent controls on mercury pollution from the nation's power plants, abandoning a Bush administration approach that the industry supported.

The Justice Department...

Would They Razz a Man? On New EPA Chief Lisa Jackson, N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and More

2010-10-21T09:24:50Z

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Senate gives warm welcome to Obama Cabinet picks

2010-06-26T04:59:35Z

Congress gives warm welcome to Obama selections, senators pledge to approve them quickly

The Senate warmly received several of President-elect Barack Obama's choices for Cabinet positions Wednesday, continuing an aggressive push to confirm them by Inauguration Day.

At hearings reviewing Obama's picks for veterans affairs secretary, agriculture secretary and EPA administrator, Senate Democrats and

Obama EPA will investigate coal ash sites

2010-06-26T04:59:30Z

Obama EPA will investigate coal ash sites, consider federal regulation

The Obama administration will immediately begin to assess the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites at power plants across the country in the wake of two spills in Alabama and Tennessee.

Lisa Jackson, President-elect Barack Obama's pic...

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2010-10-26T12:07:31Z

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Environmental groups sue over EPA mining rule

2010-04-16T13:44:07Z

Environmental groups sue to stop EPA from changing rule allowing surface mining near streams

Environmentalists sued the Bush administration on Monday, trying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from changing a rule they say keeps mining waste from entering mountain streams.

"The notion that coal mining companies can dump their wastes in streams wit...

Obama announcing labor, transportation picks Fri.

2010-04-16T13:46:14Z

Obama announcing more Cabinet picks Friday: labor, transportation, US trade representative

President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is nearly complete as he prepares to leave Saturday on a holiday vacation in his native Hawaii.

Obama was planning to officially announce California Rep. Hilda Solis

Obama names Chu as energy secretary

2010-04-16T13:50:02Z

President-elect Barack Obama Monday nominated Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu as his energy secretary, at the head of a new team to take on global warming and break US reliance on foreign oil.

Obama also tapped Lisa Jackson, chief of staff to the President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce on Monday cabinet picks to head the US agencies tasked with making America more energy efficient and ecologically friendly.

Obama's transition team said he would hold a press conference "to discuss the nation's energy and environmental future."

News reports said the president-elect Obama was likely to announce t...

EPA drops plans to change power plant rules

2010-10-23T16:12:12Z

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Daschle also to oversee new health reform office

2010-06-11T21:07:57Z

Daschle to oversee new health reform office while also serving as Obama's health secretary

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle will pull double duty in the Obama administration, where he will serve not only as the Health and Human Services secretary but also oversee a new EPA has been overstating penalties against polluters, congressional investigators say

Accounting practices at the Environmental Protection Agency have helped mask how much the Bush administration has slashed penalties against polluters, according to congressional investigators.

A House Democrats unveil draft bill to address gases blamed for global warming

With the presidential election less than a month away and the economy reeling, House Democratic leaders on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to reduce the gases blamed for global warming from power plants, transportation and factories by 80 percent come 2050.

The draft legislation, which will be refined in coming...

Protect the public’s health

2010-04-16T13:17:17Z

Environmental Protection Agency won’t regulate hazardous perchlorate in drinking water

Longtime residents of Southern Nevada will recall that two manufacturers in Henderson once made ammonium perchlorate, a rocket fuel booster much in demand as this country stockpiled ...

Out of our hands, but not out of our lives. New info on green tech dumping

2010-10-21T10:04:23Z

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US falling behind on clean air

2010-10-15T20:30:24Z

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EPA vs Texas

2010-12-30T10:31:43Z

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, refineries and chemical plants release steam near the Houston ship channel. Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are fighting over permitting and other bureaucratic issues, a battle that environmentalists, state regulators and the EPA ag...

Gulf Oil Spill Justice

2010-12-16T07:31:35Z

Attorney General Eric Holder, accompanied by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in

Mountaintop Mining Protest

2010-09-27T16:15:44Z

Maggie Fry of Huntington W.Va., shouts with other protesters in front of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Pipeline Safety

2010-09-15T16:04:18Z

From left; National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Deborah Hersman, Transportation Deputy Secretary John Porcari, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Pipeline Leak

2010-09-13T12:30:43Z

A worker takes a break during cleanup from a oil spill caused by a leak in an Enbridge Energy Partners' underground pipe in Romeoville, Il., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. The leak from an oil pipeline near Chicago appeared to be slowing Saturday, and officials were hopeful they would be able to excavate the site soon t...

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