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Apr 30 2017
News
EPA scrubs website of references to Obama climate plans
EPA is overhauling its website to remove “outdated language” referring to Obama-era programs President Donald Trump has targeted for elimination, including virtually all mentions of climate change, the agency announced late Friday.
PoliticoMar 27 2023
News
Baltimore City Council to consider asking EPA to redirect waste from East Palestine train derailment
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen (D-1) said he would introduce a resolution calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reverse its decision to send water contaminated by a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, to Baltimore. City leaders learned on Thursday at least 675,000 gallons of pretreated wastewater from East Palestine would be sent to the Back River
CBS News (Online)May 11 2023
News
New EPA regulations could force power plants to install new technology or stop using coal and gas
With a few notable exceptions, Illinois appears well on its way to meeting the Biden administration’s proposed limits on climate-changing pollution emitted by power plants. The biggest outlier is a coal-fired plant in southern Illinois owned by five Chicago suburbs and dozens of other municipalities in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. Only seven other coal plants nationwide emitted more heat-
Chicago TribuneJun 03 2022
News
Corn lobby wins big as EPA finalizes record ethanol blending requirement
U.S. refiners will be on the hook for blending record volumes of ethanol and other renewable fuels into the nation's fuel supply this year, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.
The decision is a big win for the corn lobby and a setback for many refinery interests that say the requirements are too costly.
Washington ExaminerJun 10 2015
News
House panel approves massive EPA spending cuts
House Republicans approved deep spending cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency along with provisions to block the agency’s upcoming rule-making on Wednesday.
The House Interior and Environment appropriations bill would cut EPA funding by 9 percent next year and block several new rules the agency aims to put out this summer, including rule-making on water oversight and greenhouse
Washington TimesMar 20 2024
News
‘EV Mandate’: Biden Admin Finalizes Stringent Tailpipe Emissions Standards
The Biden administration unveiled its final tailpipe emissions standards for vehicles Wednesday, effectively requiring about 67% of all light-duty vehicles sold after model year 2032 to be electric vehicles (EVs) or hybrids.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) finalized standards rolled back some of the de facto EV production benchmarks for manufacturers proposed initially, but
The Daily CallerJun 02 2014
Opinion
EPA to seek 30% cut in emissions at power plants
The EPA will propose mandating power plants cut U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions 30 by 2030 from levels of 25 years earlier - an ambitious target that marks the first-ever attempt at limiting such pollution.
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 28 2014
News
EPA Proposes Stricter Ozone Air Pollution Standard
The Obama administration is set to release energy regulations in the coming weeks that will prompt push-back from industry and lawmakers before a Republican-controlled Congress comes in next year.
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed lower limits for ground-level ozone, or smog, in the atmosphere, setting off a nearly yearlong regulatory process for setting a new
Wall Street Journal (News)Nov 11 2014
News
Republicans Vow to Fight E.P.A. and Approve Keystone Pipeline
The new Republican Congress is headed for a clash with the White House over two ambitious Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are the heart of President Obama’s climate change agenda.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the next majority leader, has already vowed to fight the rules, which could curb planet-warming carbon pollution but ultimately shut down coal-fired power plants in
New York Times (News)