When Indiana's third-largest utility, NIPSCO, analyzed the economics of its power plants last year, it decided to shift away from coal-fired power plants to renewable sources of electricity generation. Coal companies are fighting back.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has blocked three scheduled discussions of climate change by agency scientists at the State of the Narragansett Bay and Its Watershed Workshop in Providence, Rhode Island on Monday.
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The Environmental Protection Agency was forced to reverse course on delaying the implementation of an Obama-era regulation late Wednesday, announcing they would comply with the October 1, 2017 deadline.
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In a win for the very air we breathe, a federal court reversed a move by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend an Obama-era rule on methane emissions, concluding the EPA did not have the authority to suspend the rule.
The Group of Seven (G7) Environmental Summit opened today in Bologna, Italy, but President Trump's top environmental official didn't stay for the two-day meeting, citing "another commitment."
President Trump is expected to announce a review of the EPA auto fuel economy and greenhouse gas emission rules put into place by the Obama administration in January before Trump took office.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt was asked by CNBC Thursday morning whether he thought carbon dioxide was the "primary control knob" for global warming. His answer was in line with climate-deniers in the White House.
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The United States Senate has confirmed Scott Pruitt, whose skepticism about human-caused global warming and close ties to the fossil fuel industry have led critics to label him a "climate change denier," to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Senate vote on the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took place this afternoon, in spite of objections from Democrats, environmentalists, and over 800 EPA employees.
The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Agency, a move that could effect everything from climate research to water testing and waste handling.
Earlier this month, President-elect Donald Trump picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as his nominee to head up the Environmental Protection Agency. Now Senate Democrats are raising concerns about Pruitt's ties to the energy industry.
