EPA News
U.S. Sets First Curbs on Power Plant Carbon Emissions
The Obama administration on Friday announced first-ever regulations setting strict limits on the amount of carbon pollution that can be generated by any new U.S. power plant, which quickly sparked a ...
Obama’s Energy, EPA Chiefs Say Climate Plan Won’t Kill Coal
New rules limiting emissions from U.S. power plants that are expected to be proposed on Friday will "provide certainty" to the coal industry, environment and energy chiefs told lawmakers anxious ...
U.S. Appeals Court Rejects States’ Challenge Over Climate Rules
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a legal challenge by Texas and Wyoming to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. A three-judge panel of the ...
Fracking Pollution In Wyoming Cast In Doubt As EPA Drops Probe
The only finding by U.S. regulators of water contamination from fracking was thrown into doubt Friday when the federal government halted its investigation and handed the probe over to the State of ...
Will Supreme Court Enter Climate Change Debate?
With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court. ...Texas Fertilizer Co. Didn’t Disclose Hazard Chemical Levels To DHS
The fertilizer plant that exploded last Wednesday, obliterating part of a small Texas town and killing at least 14 people, had last year been storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that ...