Advocates of action on climate change hold a trump card. When the Supreme Court in 2007 determined that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, the EPA got a mandate to regulate it. But, what the court giveth, the court can rescind in a tightly contested vote.
Republican members of a key committee announced that they were not going to attend a hearing meant to advance Gina McCarthy to head the EPA. Which problem is trickier to solve: Senate chicanery or environmental pollution?
New estimates from the EPA indicate that methane leakage from natural gas production is substantially lower than previously believed. Or, translated to English: Natural gas may be a better solution to rampant global warming than anyone believed.
In a letter responding to the State Department's draft environmental assessment for the Keystone XL pipeline, the EPA finds several areas it deems insufficient. Perhaps the third time's the charm on State doing something about it.
A placid announcement from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board that it's heading to Texas to investigate the fertilizer plant explosion shouldn't be remarkable. But it is. Such deployments are rare — largely thanks, the agency claims, to the Deepwater Horizon accident.
The president's environmental moves, like today's announcement on gasoline emissions, seem to favor small dial-turns focused on economics and short-term health improvements. It's environmental smallball — and environmentalists may have given up on hoping for a home run.
After almost four years of guiding controversial decisions on fracking, the Keystone XL pipeline, and coal, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is stepping down. Now, the hunt is on for a new director who won't be able to please anyone.
First proposed in July 2011, the final rules have been welcomed by environmental groups as a much-needed initial move in reducing pollution and protecting public health from the toxic chemicals involved in the oil and natural gas drilling process. But many cautioned it was just a first step.
The Nation on the health toll of the oil spill, USA Today on the EPA's failure with smelting, Mother Jones on seabirds, and The New York Times on greening Europe and reading Thoreau
Natural gas companies can keep drilling per usual, say the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules for hydraulic fracturing or, as everybody who's not a government employee refers to it, "fracking."
Monday's best green reads: NPR on the Texas drought, Mother Jones on anti-coal activism, The New York Times on uranium-mine radiation, The Guardian on measuring global warming, and Good on an eco-friendly pantry.
In a speech Monday, Mitt Romney debuted some colorful language -- by Romney's buttoned up standards, at least -- to attack the Obama administration for over-regulation, and, from our vantage, he got a few facts mixed up.
As part of a broader strategy to take advantage of our nation's natural gas reserves, President Obama announced plans to offer a tax credit for natural gas-burning trucks at a speech in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Five protesters just got the eat-the-sidewalk-while-we-cuff-you treatment from arresting officers outside of Ron Paul's Iowa campaign headquarters.
Companies will remain competitors even as they work together to lower hybrid costs
In private, she works hard to get federal aid for all kinds of projects in her district
The new regulations aim to cut down soot and smog emissions at natural gas drilling sites
As rebuilding begins, estimates say the effort will cost hundreds of millions
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