by William Hicks | Jan 14, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON – The Agriculture Department and local government partners will spend nearly $800 million to fund 115 conservation projects, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday. The 115 conservation projects aim to improve water quality and soil health...
by Adam Mintzer | Jan 12, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Despite Republican lawmakers’ resistance to carbon emission regulation, a new study suggests voters’ views don’t always align with their elected officials’ actions. On Monday, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication said 54 percent of...
by Shelbie Bostedt | Jan 12, 2015 | Business, Energy, Environment
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will determine whether the Natural Gas Act of 1938, allowing the federal government to regulate the natural gas industry, preempts state antitrust laws regarding retail sales of natural gas in the landmark case ONEOK, Inc. v. Learjet,...
by Shelbie Bostedt | Jan 7, 2015 | Energy, Environment
WASHINGTON — With gas prices projected to hit lows not seen since 2009, speakers at the 2015 U.S. Energy Policy Outlook emphasized the disruptive nature of low prices on the global market. “There will be much difficulty until the market settles,” said Edward...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 18, 2014 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON – Recent protests of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline have highlighted the increasing importance of young voters to the conservation movement, a trend that might cause environmental issues to become more important in future elections. Dozens of young...
by Sophia Bollag | Mar 7, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Activists protested the Keystone XL oil pipeline outside the State Department on Friday, the last day for public input on the proposal. Opponents of the pipeline including representatives from dozens of environmental and social justice...
by Preetisha Sen | Feb 19, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Anti-pipeline environmentalists cited carbon pollution and high tar costs Wednesday as arguments against building the next phase of the Keystone XL pipeline. A panel of experts affiliated with the All Risk, No Reward Coalition – an anti-Keystone public...
by Jessica Floum | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The world is waiting for the United States to ratify treaties to that would close global ports to illegal fishing vessels, witnesses told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. Illegal fishing– using illegal gear, failing to report catch...
by Christophe Haubursin | Feb 12, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Like wine connoisseurs judging the best Bordeaux, a panel of judges with more than a century of taste-testing knowledge among them, named Curtis, Neb. Wednesday as having the best drinking water in rural America. The annual competition — the National...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 11, 2014 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Technology designed to cut carbon emissions in coal-fired power plants is currently too costly for practical use across the country, Energy Department officials said Tuesday. Carbon capture and storage techniques – known as CCS technologies – will...
by Jessica Floum | Feb 10, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Crude oil production in the United States is on the rise, consumption is decreasing and future prices of both crude and price-at-the-pump remain uncertain, experts said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel Monday. Crude oil supply...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 7, 2014 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule limiting power plants’ carbon emissions got a big thumbs-up from environmentalist Rep. Henry Waxman Thursday at a rally outside the EPA building. The California lawmaker and top Democrat on the House...
