The Court could complicate ongoing efforts to restrict U.S. greenhouse gas emissions via regulations
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It’s Not Just Obama’s Carbon Rules That Are Killing Coal. It’s Cheap Gas
New regulations from the EPA will make it almost impossible to build a new coal plant. But cheap natural gas was doing that already
Climate Rules: Why Natural Gas Will Be the Big Winner in New Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Ever since comprehensive climate legislation died of neglect in the U.S. Senate in 2010, environmentalists have looked to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step in and save the day. According to the Supreme Court, the …
Fracked: CNN Looks Into the Legal Gray Zone of Shale Gas Regulation
Oil is all we seem to want to talk about these days—$3.82 a gallon gas will do that—but the shale gas boom is still going on in much of the U.S. Ground zero—as we wrote about last year in TIME—is Pennsylvania, where some landowners have made a lot of money leasing their land for shale gas production. But as Poppy Harlow reports …
Clean Air: The EPA Finally Tackles Mercury Pollution
At the start of the fall, greens were not happy with President Obama. There was lingering disappointment about the failure of climate legislation a year before—a failure that many environmentalists blamed on insufficient action …
“By cutting emissions that are linked to developmental disorders and respiratory illnesses like asthma, these standards represent a major victory for clean air and public health– and especially for the health of our children. The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards will protect millions of families and children from harmful and costly air pollution and provide the American people with health benefits that far outweigh the costs of compliance.”
A Quiet Green Win for Obama on Auto Efficiency
Many of President Obama’s progressive supports have soured on him in recent months, as the debt crisis and a Republican House has forced him to embrace deep spending cuts, and environmentalists are among them. There’s still unhappiness among greens over the White House’s perceived failure to push hard for carbon cap-and-trade …
Why Fighting Energy-Efficient Light Bulbs Is So Stupid
There’s dumb, there’s dumber and then there are the House Republicans—nearly all of them—who voted this morning to set the U.S. back on energy efficiency. By a quick voice vote, the House approved an amendment that would prevent funds from a 2012 spending bill to be used to implement federal light bulb standards. The amendment …
Is New York About to Get Fracking? Not Exactly
Environmentalists and gas drillers alike snapped to attention when the news alert went up earlier today: the New York Times reported that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was ready to lift the state’s moratorium on natural gas drilling via hydraulic fracturing. The moratorium was put into place by Cuomo’s predecessor David Paterson, …
A Win for Clean Air in the Southeast—and a Blow to Coal
Yesterday Tom Fanning, the CEO of the majority coal-powered utility Southern Company, made a few headlines when he told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in a speech that the Obama administration has “virtually declared war on coal,” continuing:
The existing coal industry is under attack by some in America. Decisions are being made today
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