by Stephanie Haines | Feb 4, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan coalition of senators and congressmen urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, the fourth installment of an operation to channel oil from Canada to Nebraska, at a news conference Tuesday. The $7 billion project proposed...
by Sophia Bollag | Feb 4, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Sen. Jay Rockefeller Tuesday blamed inadequate federal regulations for the recent water contamination crisis that left hundreds of thousands of residents in his home state of West Virginia without safe water for at least three weeks. “Regulation is soft...
by Stephanie Yang | Mar 13, 2013 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The U.S. government has declared 50 percent more national disasters on average over the last 10 years when compared to the previous decade, but the nation’s main disaster relief agency is about to lose more than $1 billion in federal funding. How much it...
by Tom Meyer | Feb 13, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON— Sens. Ron Wyden and Lisa Murkowski advocated different approaches to regulation of natural gas production Wednesday, but promised to find “common ground” as leading members of the Energy and Resources Committee. Wyden, D-Ore., and Murkowski, R-Alaska,...
by Stephanie Yang | Feb 11, 2013 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s plan to rebrand the Republican Party neglected a priority for the Obama administration and also many Americans — climate change. After a dip in 2009, public acceptance of climate change as a reality is growing. According...
by Josh Solomon | Feb 5, 2013 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – In 2008, energy experts convened on Capitol Hill with a dire message: the world is running out of fossil fuels and America’s energy future is insecure. On Tuesday, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power met with expert energy witnesses who said new...
by Stephanie Yang | Feb 5, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON – The United States is in the midst of a boom in oil and natural gas production that could lead to 1.3 million new jobs and an energy-independent future, government officials and energy experts told a House energy committee hearing Tuesday. Adam Sieminski,...
by Stephanie Yang | Jan 23, 2013 | Environment
WASHINGTON – In light of severe storms and hurricanes in recent years, the RAND Corporation, a major national security think tank, offered a $50 billion master plan Wednesday for reducing flooding and damages in coastal areas. The funding to support such a plan,...
by Stephanie Yang | Jan 15, 2013 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON – The U.S. has no clear strategy to address climate change, and how President Barack Obama addresses that issue will determine whether the U.S. takes a leadership role in this key environmental issue in 2013, the head of the World Resources Institute said...
by Jaclyn Skurie | Mar 14, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON— Charlie Gilpin Jr. has been fishing on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers for almost 20 years, and invasive Asian carp have been a nuisance for as long as he can remember. Recently, he counted 23 carp inside his boat. They got there just by jumping. But...
by Chris Kirk | Mar 13, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is taking flak for the first federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technique for drilling for natural gas — and it hasn’t even formally announced them yet. “These new regulations will add...
by Rachel Morello | Feb 29, 2012 | Business, Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that the Obama administration is making great strides in creating green jobs, but environment-friendly industries are still not getting recognition. “We’re left with a time of real excitement here, that...
