Transparency was a major issue on Thursday at the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obamaās choice to run the Environm...
WASHINGTON (AP) ā The Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing part of a controversial rule that sets the first federal standards to reduce toxi...
Entrepreneurs support EPA standards and believe they're conducive to job creation and economic growth -- in other words, they don't view regulation as the bee in their small business bonnet.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved Montana's plan to phase in strict limits on water pollution from municip...
The GOP's attack on regulation is part of a larger attempt to discredit the idea that government can play a positive role in people's lives. That attack is itself based on a fantasy -- that in the absence of government, human action would yield generally optimal outcomes for society as a whole.
Last Friday, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson appeared on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," discussing her work and the Obama administration's environm...
New polling information that shows overwhelming majorities of Americans support stronger health and environmental standards, and they also think Congress should back off and let the EPA do its job.
We know the drill. We know we need to turn off the water, stop buying plastic bottles and unplug the toaster. Do these small actions really make a difference?
WASHINGTON -- The EPA is trying to put to rest what it calls a "myth" that it is going to crack down on farm dust.
In letters to two senators last we...
In their votes on environmental issues this year, House Republicans from blue places have greens seeing red.
Which is to say that GOP legislators fro...
ST. LOUIS -- Ameren Corp. said Tuesday it will close two power plants in Illinois by the end of the year, blaming the cost of complying with new pollu...
Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate.
Big Oil is also in the sights of the cartoon Cars 2. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, director John Lasseter said, "I kept going to big oil" as the villain in the soon-to-be-released film.
From cracking down on milk spills to regulating human respiration, the power-crazed bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency will stop at no...
In case there was any doubt, the White House on Tuesday issued a formal statement opposing a bill now before the House that would bar the Environmenta...
The Climate Post Offers a Rundown of the Week in Climate and Energy News
Last Friday, Japan was rocked by a magnitude 9.0 quake--its most powerful ea...
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