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...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 26, 2011 | Business, Environment, Health & Science, Politics
WASHINGTON—Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Wednesday began to put detail on President Barack Obama’s plan to use clean energy as an engine of job growth. “If there’s a cheap source of clean energy,” Chu said, “the world will gobble it up.” Echoing themes from the...
by Lauren Schwartzberg | Jan 18, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON—The Wilderness Society brought its case for protecting public lands to the National Press Club on Tuesday. At stake: where to allow oil-and-gas drilling and mining, and how to offer guidance to the government on renewable energy efforts. The society, the...
by Nina Lincoff | Jan 11, 2011 | Environment
WASHINGTON— The commission President Barack Obama set up in late May to look into the Deepwater Horizon accident issued its final report on the largest oil spill in U.S. history Tuesday, recommending that Congress, federal agencies and the oil industry undertake...
