A federal judge has decided that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can’t sue DTE Energy for failing to install pollution control equipment at the company’s Monroe plant during an equipment upgrade last year.
Colorado conservation groups will rally on the sidewalk in front of U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner’s office in Fort Collins on Friday to protest the Republican congressman’s ongoing legislative campaign to rein in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and keep the federal agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean More…
The Senate has rejected a Republican amendment that would have blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) has proposed an amendment to small business legislation that would suspend U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas regulations for two years.
The Senate is expected to vote today on S493, a bill to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology More…
U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., helped lead last week’s GOP onslaught against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, despite polling in his congressional district showing two-thirds of his constituents feel “Congress should let the EPA do its job.”
Gardner, a co-sponsor of legislation meant More…
The first of several promised clashes over U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulatory powers came this week at a hearing over a Republican bill that would block the agency from regulating greenhouse gases out of concern for climate change.
At a heated Wednesday hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee More…
Most people, regardless of political affiliation, oppose Congressional efforts to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating pollution under the Clean Air Act, according to a new poll from ORC International.
The 1,007 person survey was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council after former U.S. House More…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met late yesterday with Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to discuss whether he would allow a vote on the West Virginia lawmaker’s proposal to delay the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions by two years.
Reid said yesterday before the meeting that More…
In the spirit of writing more often about climate research, I thought I’d share some new data on the impact of climate change on coral reefs and forests. Climate advocates have homed in on the research in the latest effort to call for action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The More…
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), in a floor speech today, called for expanding electric and natural gas vehicles legislation slated to come up for a procedural vote during the lame-duck session to encourage the use of ethanol. While he said he would vote for cloture on the bill, he warned that More…
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