by Chris Kirk | Jan 10, 2012 | Business, Environment
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Tuesday it is taking a diverse approach to energy development in Alaska where it is pushing for natural gas drilling, offshore oil drilling and alternative energy. Several cabinet agencies are cooperating with energy...
by Chris Kirk | Jan 9, 2012 | Environment
Washington — Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar placed a 20-year ban Monday on new uranium mining claims around the Grand Canyon. “We have been entrusted to care for and protect our precious environmental and cultural resources, and we have chosen a...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 9, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON—The world economy’s transition toward a global green economy “is not only possible, but it is already on the way,” Achim Steiner, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), said Wednesday. But Steiner said that unless nations...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON—Peter Meier, an independent energy economist and consultant, spoke Wednesday about renewable energies in developing countries at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. According to Meier, the future of wind power as a cost-effective...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 2, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— The head of the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday defended President Barack Obama’s proposal to reduce the agency’s spending by 12.5 percent in 2012 in an appearance in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “This FY 2012...
by Nina Lincoff | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Overcoming the United States’ next Sputnik moment—the first came when the Soviets shocked 1950’s America by rocketing a tiny satellite into space—may depend on a brand new idea. The shiny new goal at the end of the current global technology race...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Mar 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Imagine walking down independence Avenue late one Friday night. The time is way past when you would expect anyone to be working. Yet, as you walk by government building after government building, you notice that just about every single light on. The...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 8, 2011 | Business, Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON— Influential environmental leaders and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency touted the benefits of “green jobs” on Tuesday. “Environmental protection and economic growth can and do go hand in hand,” EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Feb 2, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will set a national drinking water standard for the toxic substance perchlorate. The EPA said it was reversing a 2008 Bush administration ruling. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson made the...
by Nina Lincoff | Feb 1, 2011 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON—The influential U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled a plan on Tuesday that’s at odds with much of President Barack Obama’s clean energy agenda. The chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy presented what it calls “realistic, bipartisan solutions to our...
by Alanna Autler | Feb 1, 2011 | Environment
As director of the Office of Health Homes and Lead Hazard Control, Jon Gant dislikes the phrase, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” But at the Second National Bed Bug Summit hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, Gant confessed that he utters those...
