The Environmental Protection Agency will soon offer their comments on the final Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the U.S. State Department concerning the Keystone XL pipeline.
The two Colorado lawmakers leading the charge to clean up the controversial natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, were pleased by a federal advisory panel’s findings Thursday urging greater transparency and disclosure of the chemicals used in the process. But both warned much more needs to be More…
A newly released study by the United States Geological Survey shows that nitrate concentrations in the Mississippi River Basin did not consistently decline from 1980 to 2008. The increased nitrate levels directly affect the Gulf of Mexico, where they contribute to “dead zones,” or hypoxia.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) just announced that he has a “rough draft” of an energy bill, and he hopes to introduce it the week after next. Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, he said the bill has four titles:
- Oil spill response
- Clean energy job creation More…
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants. It hopes to implement the rules in 2012.
The move ups the pressure on lawmakers who prefer congressional action to EPA regulation but have been wary of carbon-pricing legislation. With More…
The Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Jane Melzer reports that if it comes from Lake Huron, it might be:
In its “2008 Michigan Family Fish Consumption Guide: Important facts to know if you eat Michigan fish,” the Michigan Department of Community Health warns that pre-menopausal women and children
Is the Environmental Protection Agency showing some teeth under the new direction of Administrator Lisa Jackson and the Obama administration?
TWI’s sister site, The New Mexico Independent, has the story.
In a dramatic move yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew the
President Obama has consistently called for all emissions permits to be auctioned off to polluters under a cap-and-trade scheme to produce strong and immediate incentives to reduce carbon emissions. But today White House science adviser John Holdren told The Washington Post that the administration would consider phasing in a More…
As the auto industry decries the White House decision to reconsider California’s push for stricter emission standards, some environmental groups are quick to point out that several automakers have already pledged to meet the proposed guidelines.
Business strategies submitted to Congress, as part of a December bailout debate, by More…
Sen. Barbara Boxer, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has never been much a fan of Stephen Johnson, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator with a long record of putting Bush administration orthodoxy above the environment he’s charged to protect. But the California Democrat was particularly rankled More…
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