The Washington Post reports on President Obama’s new strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
A White House official said energy would remain a top priority for the administration but would be packaged differently.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), amid the post-election hubbub of her tight re-election bid, renewed her call to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
In a statement from her office, Murkowski outlined ways to reduce greenhouse gases without a cap-and-trade system or EPA regulation, including “investment More…
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Albania Deleon, an “Environmental Protection Agency fugitive” and the first woman to be given that title, was captured in the Dominican Republic Saturday after months on the run. Deleon was wanted by the EPA for More…
The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s national trade organization, criticized the Obama administration today — and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular — for its efforts to impose new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone pollution. The group also targeted the EPA’s recent decision to More…
The Obama administration announced first-of-their-kind national standards today to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and increase the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks and buses.
The rules start with model year 2014 heavy-duty trucks and buses and require up to a 20 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions for 2018 vehicles. More…
The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder says Carol Browner, President Obama’s climate and energy policy adviser, is a “plausible candidate” to become White House chief of staff.
He says:
Democrats connected with the White House say that Carol Browner, currently, the president’s senior adviser on energy and the environment, and the
The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has granted a waiver allowing for gasoline to be mixed with up to 15 percent ethanol for vehicles of model year 2007 and newer. Currently, only 10 percent ethanol can be blended with gasoline.
There has been an ongoing fight behind the More…
The Environmental Protection Agency released today a five-year plan outlining key goals for the agency. Chief among those goals is “taking action on climate change.”
The 2011-2015 plan includes the following five “strategic goals”:
The White House is pushing back against a series of draft staff reports released yesterday by the national oil spill commission.
As I noted in my story yesterday, the White House did in fact release an estimate in May of the worst-case scenario of the spill, despite suggestions in More…
The federal government was not prepared to determine how chemical dispersants should be used to break up oil in the event of a massive oil spill, a draft report released today by the national oil spill commission says.
According to the report, which was released in conjunction with three More…
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