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...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 8, 2012 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new emission caps on oil and coal-fired power plants are the most costly regulations on utilities to date, House Republicans argued at a hearing Wednesday. “It is simply unacceptable for this administration to continue to impose...
by Chris Kirk | Feb 1, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON — A Republican-led House committee Wednesday criticized as “unnecessarily alarming” a report from the Environmental Protection Agency that concluded natural gas drilling contaminated groundwater in Wyoming. The EPA released a draft in December of a...
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...