Environment & Energy

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has temporarily halted implementation of President George W. Bush’s reforms to the New Source Review (NSR) provisions of the Clean Air Act. The reforms, announced August 27 by the U.S.

A federal district judge in Washington DC has thrown out a National Park Service (NPS) rule and ordered a permanent ban on snowmobiles from Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.

Jack McFarland owns property, which he bought from his grandmother, in Glacier National Park.

A New York-based group called the Radiation and Public Health Project recently released seemingly alarming statistics about cancer and infant health in downstate Grundy County.

After more than a year of debate, the U.S. House and U.S. Senate on November 21 approved a law to expedite the management of 20 million acres of federal land at serious risk of catastrophic forest fire.

Environmental Protection Agency documents indicate the agency is poised to require dramatic cuts in power-plant mercury emissions.

As a cofounder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore is one of the godfathers of the modern environmental movement. Since the mid-1980s, however, he has become critical of the movement’s direction, especially its commitment to confrontational tactics.

New research confirms that Endangered Species Act listings do not necessarily help--and may even harm--rare species on private lands.

Greenpeace, Inc., one of the world’s most confrontational environmental activist groups, is facing criminal prosecution for organizing an illegal boarding and boatjacking of a ship it falsely believed carried rare Brazilian mahogany.

Environmental activists are famous for using street theater to embarrass opponents and draw attention to their platforms.

The Clean Air Act (CAA) provides that “air pollution control at its source is the primary responsibility of states and local governments.

Curbside recycling is one of the most wasteful endeavors practiced by local governments, concluded an investigation by an Orlando, Florida television news station.

Wildfires torched Southern California during the latter half of October, devastating an area larger than Rhode Island and prompting the U.S. Senate to finally pass its version of President George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests Initiative.

Air quality in the United States is good and will continue to improve in coming years, according to a newly published report written by Competitive Enterprise Institute adjunct scholar Joel Schwartz.

Another Washington DC summer is over, as is another season of Washington smog. While this summer’s air quality was typical of recent years, many residents got the impression things have deteriorated.

A handful of states opposing recent Bush administration reforms to the Clean Air Act have threatened to formalize the outdated rules in their own state laws.

Over the past several years studies by Harvard University and Tufts University professors and researchers at The Heritage Foundation have found that many common smart-growth strategies raise home prices by increasing the cost of land and/or by adding

Three-term Utah Governor Mike Leavitt assumed the reins of the Environmental Protection Agency on October 28 as the U.S. Senate overcame several procedural obstacles and confirmed the Bush nominee by a vote of 88-8.

Carbon dioxide emission allowances were traded for the first time in the U.S. as the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) convened its first CO2 auction on September 30.

Environmental terrorists, already designated by the FBI as the nation’s No. 1 domestic terrorism threat, ran rampant across America during summer and fall 2003.

The U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency announced several new Clean Air and Clean Water fines during the month of October.

Two paper companies that discharged PCBs into northeast Wisconsin’s Fox River have agreed to pay $50 million toward the cleanup of the river’s headwaters.

Urban planning was a big part of Nickolae Ceaucescu’s “vision” of a better Romania for himself and his elite circle of friends.

August brought another unwelcome reminder of the elitist strains that infect the anti-sprawl movement.