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Environmental, Energy Policies Blamed for California Wildfires, Power Outages
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Longstanding environmental and energy policies are increasingly being blamed for the severity and amount of devastation from California’s repeated wildfires. -
Texas Railroad Commission Establishes Safety Rules for Some Pipelines
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Texas Railroad Commission, the agency that regulates Texas’ oil and gas industry, rejected proposals from commission staff to impose stringent regulations on the small pipelines carrying oil and gas from wells to processing sites. -
Trump Administration Makes Paris Climate Agreement Pull-Out Official
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration formally notified the United Nations it will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. -
EPA Backs Off Plan for Science Transparency Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Environmental Protection Agency repealed a proposed regulatory reform to limit the agency’s use of studies for which the underlying data is not available for “independent validation to craft major new regulations. -
Millions of Dollars in Fraudulent Electric Vehicle Tax Credit Claims Revealed
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Internal Revenue Service wrongly granted $73.8 million of electric vehicle tax credits for 16,510 tax returns that made fraudulent or mistaken claims for the credits between 2014 and 2018. -
Iowa Governor Blocks State’s Attorney General from Joining Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Power Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds denied the state's Attorney General permission to join a lawsuit filed by a number of states and cities challenging the Affordable Clean Energy rule. -
EPA Grants Small Refineries Biofuel Waivers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection agency granted 31 waivers to small refineries allowing them not to blend ethanol into their products without penalty. -
NH Supreme Court Rejects Northern Pass Transmission Line
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New Hampshire’s Supreme Court upheld a state commission’s rejection of the Northern Pass electricity transmission line. -
States Sue U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Demanding Stricter Asbestos Standards
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Ten states and Washington, D.C. sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency demanding it undertake further research concerning risks stemming from the public’s exposure to asbestos. -
Wind Industry Poised for Decline, Report States
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A new report says impending government decisions could soon result in a sharp decline in expansion of wind power. -
Two Kansas Counties Stop Major Wind, Solar Industrial Developments
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Two central Kansas counties are applying the brakes to the expansion of industrial wind facilities within their borders. -
Idaho Phosphate Mine Wins Approval by Bureau of Land Management
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Idaho Falls District Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the Caldwell Canyon Mine Project, an open pit phosphate mine in Caribou County in the southeastern part of the state. -
EPA Allows Environmental Review of Alaska Pebble Mine
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its Obama-era 2014 decision preventing consideration of the Pebble Mine project near Bristol Bay, Alaska, allowing the environmental review process to begin. -
Trump Administration Promotes Species Conservation with New Rules
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service released final regulations aimed at improving implementation of the 1973 Endangered Species Act to protect threatened and endangered species while strengthening pr -
EPA to Rescind East Texas Air-Quality Nonattainment Designation
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposes to reverse the agency’s 2016 designation of parts of five east Texas counties near a large coal-fueled power plant as being in nonattainment for sulfur dioxide levels under the 1970 Clean Air Act. -
Climate Catastrophe Theory Is ‘Hoax,’ Award-Winning Scientist Says
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Beginning in 1980, with the very poorly thought-out Comprehensive Environmental Regulation and Compensation Act legislation, better known as Superfund, environmental zealots took over EPA, and not another useful piece of legislation has passed since. -
Legislative Pulse: Colorado Legislature Overrides Voters’ Oil and Gas Decision
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New restrictions on oil and gas development in Colorado is a mockery of local control, and will devastate the industry. -
Twenty-Two States, Seven Cities Sue Trump Administration Over Power Plant Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A coalition of 22 states and seven cities has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Trump administration violated the 1970 Clean Air Act when it replaced Obama-era coal-fueled power plant rules with new regulations to curb carbon-dioxide emissions. -
EPA Exceeds President’s Goals for Reducing Regulations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -An internal watchdog report shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has exceeded the president’s regulatory reduction goals, removing more regulations per regulation issued in fiscal year 2017 than any other federal agency. -
Federal Court Trump Administration Ax Obama Era WOTUS Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -One of the most far-reaching regulatory initiatives ever undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been struck down by a federal court in Georgia and then withdrawn by the Trump administration. -
Trump Administration Rescinds California’s Fuel Economy Waiver
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Trump administration has announced regulations withdrawing a waiver that allowed California to set separate standards for greenhouse gases, under which the state set higher fuel economy requirements for cars sold within its borders. -
Trump Administration ESA Reforms Emphasize Species at Most Risk
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Department of the Interior unveiled regulations guiding how the 46-year-old Endangered Species Act will be carried out, aimed at reducing costs and focusing scarce agency resources on recovering species most at risk of disappearing. -
Keystone XL Pipeline Overcomes Last Legal Hurdle in Nebraska
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A dozen years after it was initially proposed, the Keystone XL Pipeline cleared a major hurdle to its completion as the Nebraska Supreme Court approved its revised path through the state, ending the final Nebraska-based legal challenge to the pipeline. -
Federal Judge Tosses ‘Right to Wilderness’ Lawsuit
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A U.S. District Court rejected a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the federal government claiming its policies allowing fossil fuel development and use violate the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to wilderness unaffected by human activity.
