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The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a draft proposal to the Office of Management and Budget that would ease any forthcoming greenhouse gas regulations to sources emitting 25,000 tons or more per year.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to conduct a show trial it calls the “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century.” Others take the analogy further back to the witch trials of Salem in the 17th century.
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The EPA approves the California waiver allowing the state to enforce tougher tailpipe emissions standards.
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Climatologist James Hansen and actress Daryl Hannah were among those arrested yesterday for protesting mountaintop removal strip mining in West Virginia
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The Obama administration creates the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to help set new standards for the biofuels industry.
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EarthTalk for Monday May 4 – the environmental impacts from the December 2008 coal ash spill in Tennessee.
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This week’s EarthTalk from E Magazine discusses the threats facing polar bears and the promise and potential of using biomass as a component to solving our energy challenges.
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The EPA is objecting to what they deem inadequate emissions controls at a proposed 580-MW coal-fired plant in South Dakota. The developers plan to redress their permit application and anticipate moving forward with the project.
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President Barack Obama on Monday signed two presidential memoranda taking on environmental issues either ignored or abused by the Bush administration:
- A first memorandum directing Lisa Jackson and the EPA to reconsider the denial of a waiver allowing California and 17 other states to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Granting the waiver is consistent with initial EPA staff recommendations.
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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Stephen Johnson released a 19-page memo last Thursday claiming that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant subject to regulation when permitting coal-fired power plants.
Johnson’s reasoning goes against a ruling made by his own agency, when the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board rejected a permit from a regional EPA office in Denver for a 110 megawatt plant on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in Utah. The three-judge panel denied the permit saying that the regional office failed to support its decision to approve the plant without requiring it to have the best CO2 controls available, further directing the office to think again about its determination that the controls not be put in place.
Continue Reading Carbon Emissions “Not a Factor” When Approving Coal Plants, EPA Administrator Says
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