Supreme Court Set to Hear Two Major Cases Next Week
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Set to Hear Two Major Cases Next Week
2025-03-21 19:03:44
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear two of the major cases in its current term next week; one that will take a closer look at racial gerrymandering in Louisiana, the other considering federal court jurisdiction over Clean... Read More

Supreme Court Rejects States’ Plea to Stop EPA’s Power Plant Rules
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Rejects States’ Plea to Stop EPA’s Power Plant Rules
2024-10-17 18:59:07
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency can begin enforcing strict new rules on power plant emissions despite efforts by conservative states to block them. The rules have the effect of moving the nation... Read More

EPA Argues in Supreme Court Filing to Keep Methane Emissions Rule
Energy
EPA Argues in Supreme Court Filing to Keep Methane Emissions Rule
2024-09-23 19:30:55
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists are urging the Supreme Court to allow a new regulation tightening methane emissions to go forward despite challenges from 24 states and the oil and gas industry. The opponents said in a... Read More

Ag Group Cheers Passage of House Resolution on Emissions
Congress
Ag Group Cheers Passage of House Resolution on Emissions
2024-09-23 18:46:34
by Dan McCue

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. — The National Corn Growers Association is applauding House approval on Friday of a resolution that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans claim would force Americans to buy electric vehicles that they... Read More

Federal Court Says EPA Authorized to Continue With Power Plant Rules
Regulation
Federal Court Says EPA Authorized to Continue With Power Plant Rules
2024-07-23 19:42:18
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency can proceed with strict new emissions standards for power plants despite objections from the coal and natural gas industries as well as Republican state attorneys general. The... Read More

EPA Awards $4.3B to Fund Projects in 30 States to Reduce Climate Pollution
Climate
EPA Awards $4.3B to Fund Projects in 30 States to Reduce Climate Pollution

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $4.3 billion in grants to fund projects in 30 states to reduce climate pollution. The money will go to 25 projects targeting greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, electric power, commercial and residential buildings, industry, agriculture... Read More

Trucking Group Applauds GOP Effort to Roll Back New Emission Standards
Transportation
Trucking Group Applauds GOP Effort to Roll Back New Emission Standards
2024-07-03 15:59:38
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The nation’s largest national trade association for the trucking industry is throwing its support behind a Republican effort to urge the Environmental Protection Agency to put the brakes on newly announced emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles. Unveiled in... Read More

Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to ‘Vague’ EPA Rules
Regulation
Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to ‘Vague’ EPA Rules
2024-05-28 20:04:02
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear San Francisco, California’s, challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to tell cities not to pollute water bodies without setting specific limits to guide them. The central issue in the... Read More

Attorneys General, State Legislature Seek Stay of EPA Methane Rule
Litigation
Attorneys General, State Legislature Seek Stay of EPA Methane Rule
2024-04-15 20:00:07
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Attorneys general from 24 states and one state legislature have asked a federal appeals court to stay a new methane emissions rule rolled out by the Environmental Protection Agency. Unveiled in December and finalized on March 8, the... Read More

EPA Finalizes Permit for Largest Offshore Wind Farm in US
Renewable Energy
EPA Finalizes Permit for Largest Offshore Wind Farm in US
2024-04-15 19:51:53
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week issued a key air quality permit to Dominion Energy’s planned offshore wind project off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The agency issued the project’s final Clean Air Act Outer Continental... Read More

Ag Groups Urge EPA to Issue E15 Emergency Waiver
Agriculture
Ag Groups Urge EPA to Issue E15 Emergency Waiver
2024-04-05 18:03:57
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Several agricultural groups representing hundreds of thousands of farmers are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to swiftly grant the biofuel sector an emergency waiver for E15 sales. In a March 26 letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan,... Read More

White House Unveils Sweeping Rules to Speed Switch to Cleaner Cars
Climate
White House Unveils Sweeping Rules to Speed Switch to Cleaner Cars
2024-03-20 20:53:10
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration on Wednesday rolled out an ambitious new regulatory regime aimed at bolstering the standards of electric and hybrid vehicles by placing new restrictions on tailpipe emissions. According to administration officials, who briefed reporters on the... Read More

EPA Sets Tougher Limits on Gas Used to Sterilize Medical Devices
Health
EPA Sets Tougher Limits on Gas Used to Sterilize Medical Devices
2024-03-15 19:11:47
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized tougher restrictions on ethylene oxide, a cancer-causing gas commonly used to sterilize medical devices. The new standards specifically target commercial sterilization facilities. The agency called them “the strongest measures in U.S.... Read More

EPA Proposes New Limits on Gas Distribution Facilities
Regulation
EPA Proposes New Limits on Gas Distribution Facilities
2024-03-15 18:09:41
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized a rule strengthening toxic air pollution standards at gasoline distribution facilities, including storage tanks, loading operations and equipment leaks.  The action — from which gas stations are exempt — is expected... Read More

Supreme Court Looks at EPA’s Justification for Rule to Block Interstate Pollution
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Looks at EPA’s Justification for Rule to Block Interstate Pollution
2024-02-21 22:01:54
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether to keep the Environmental Protection Agency’s good neighbor rule that requires states to clean up their industrial pollution that could be carried by wind into neighboring states. Indiana, Ohio and... Read More

Environmentalists Sue EPA for Data on Health Risks of Forever Chemicals
Litigation
Environmentalists Sue EPA for Data on Health Risks of Forever Chemicals
2024-02-16 19:15:50
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Environmentalists sued the Environmental Protection Agency this week in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking information about health risks from forever chemicals in fluorinated plastic containers. The two groups that sued accuse the EPA of withholding information about... Read More

EPA Awards Nearly $1B in Clean School Bus Program Grants
Climate
EPA Awards Nearly $1B in Clean School Bus Program Grants
2024-01-08 19:18:05
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced that it will award nearly $1 billion to 67 applicants as a result of its very first clean school bus program grant competition. The agency said the awards will enable the... Read More

Appeals Court Rejects Bid for Stay of ‘Good Neighbor’ Pollution Plan
Environment
Appeals Court Rejects Bid for Stay of ‘Good Neighbor’ Pollution Plan
2023-09-25 19:38:05
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Monday rejected an attempt by the state of Utah to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a plan to protect downwind states from smog that blows from... Read More

Farmers, Renewable Fuel Producers Press EPA on Emissions Standards
Transportation
Farmers, Renewable Fuel Producers Press EPA on Emissions Standards
2023-07-10 16:02:57
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Seven national associations, representing everyone from farmers to retailers to renewable fuel producers, are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt a “market-oriented, technology-neutral” approach to setting the next round of tailpipe emissions standards. In April, the EPA... Read More

EPA Challenged in Congress Over Its Climate Change Proposals
Congress
EPA Challenged in Congress Over Its Climate Change Proposals
2023-06-21 19:04:18
by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Some members of Congress predicted Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency is headed into a losing battle over what they described as the agency’s overreach with proposed clean air regulations. A House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee held a hearing... Read More

EPA Lifts High-Ethanol Gasoline Ban for Summer
Regulation
EPA Lifts High-Ethanol Gasoline Ban for Summer
2023-05-01 14:19:04
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday waived its summer ban on sales of higher-ethanol gasoline blends, making this the second year in a row that gas stations across the country will be able to sell gasoline blended with... Read More

EPA Proposes Rules to Ensure Timely Electric Vehicle Transition
Climate
EPA Proposes Rules to Ensure Timely Electric Vehicle Transition
2023-04-12 17:07:09
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed new vehicle pollution limits intended to ensure that at least two-thirds of new cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks sold in the United States by 2032 are all-electric. The... Read More

EPA, Justice Dept. Seek Civil Penalties In East Palestine Wreck
Environment
EPA, Justice Dept. Seek Civil Penalties In East Palestine Wreck
2023-03-31 15:51:06
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency, in coordination with the U.S. Justice Department, is seeking potentially millions of dollars in civil fines from the Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in connection to the Feb. 3 derailment of a train carrying hazardous... Read More

EPA Wants Federal Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
Regulation
EPA Wants Federal Limits on ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water
2023-03-15 14:47:39
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing federal limits on toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water, a move the Biden administration believes will prevent serious illness and death for thousands of Americans each year. PFAS,... Read More

Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge EPA to ‘Chart New Course for Biofuels’
Energy
Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge EPA to ‘Chart New Course for Biofuels’
2022-10-21 21:05:58
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Friday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to use its upcoming decision on the Renewable Fuel Standard to “chart a new course for biofuels” to meet the nation’s “diverse energy demands.” In a... Read More

EPA Says Louisiana’s Air Pollution Impairs Minorities’ Civil Rights
Health
EPA Says Louisiana’s Air Pollution Impairs Minorities’ Civil Rights
2022-10-17 20:44:35
by Tom Ramstack

LAPLACE, La. — The Environmental Protection Agency is warning Louisiana officials that their failure to protect residents from air pollution in a two-county industrialized area might be a violation of civil rights laws. The area known as “Cancer Alley” is... Read More

Civil Rights Law Targets ‘Cancer Alley’ Discrimination
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Law Targets 'Cancer Alley' Discrimination

RESERVE, La. (AP) — Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant,... Read More

EPA Waives Fuel Rule in Four States After Indiana Refinery Fire
Regulation
EPA Waives Fuel Rule in Four States After Indiana Refinery Fire
2022-08-30 18:25:02
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate fuel shortages in four midwestern states whose supply of gasoline has been impacted by an electrical fire at a BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The... Read More

EPA to Designate ‘Forever Chemicals’ as Hazardous Substances
Environment
EPA to Designate 'Forever Chemicals' as Hazardous Substances

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. The designation means that releases of long-lasting chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS that meet or... Read More

Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions
Environment
Supreme Court Limits EPA Authority to Regulate Power Plant Emissions

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday dramatically limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a major blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to address climate change. The 6-3 ruling written by Chief... Read More

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