Top environmental groups blasted a plan by House Republicans to attach language delaying a key air pollution regulation to a legislative package that would extend the...
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Range fuels cellulosic ethanol plant fails, U.S. pulls plug
Range Fuels Inc., a cellulosic ethanol company backed by as much as $156 million in U.S. loans and grants from President George W. Bush’s administration, is being forced...
2010 CO2 output shows biggest jump ever, says international research group
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the...
GM says very few Volt owners selling car back, taking out loaners
A small number of Chevy Volt owners (around 50, at last count) have signed on to a letter saying they are perfectly happy with their cars and feel safe driving them. An...
BP claims Halliburton destroyed Gulf oil-spill evidence
BP is alleging that Halliburton destroyed evidence in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 that showed the cement formula the firm used on the...
More Coverage: AP
Oil execs to Romney: Life was better under Bush
GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he’s heard from oil industry executives that were happier under President George W. Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency – and...
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More Coverage: The Hill's E2 Wire
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The manufacturing industry launched a series of television and radio advertisements Monday blasting Environmental Protection Agency regulations aimed in part at a handful...
Reid plans to allow vote on GOP amendment to block EPA climate rules
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he plans to allow a floor vote on a primarily GOP bill that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
Rush Holt: EPA not doing good enough job monitoring 'fracking'
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Republicans to introduce bill to block EPA climate rules Thursday
Republicans will officially introduce Thursday a bill to permanently block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.The bill will be...
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Ahead of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, various interest groups are putting pressure on the president to save a few words for their policy...
League of Conservation Voters closes in on record election spending
The League of Conservation Voters on Monday announced $250,000 in ad buys hitting Republicans in key House races in Michigan and North Carolina. The ad buys raise the...
Baucus not yet committing to support Rockefeller's plan to delay EPA regs
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is not committing just yet to backing a plan by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) to delay EPA climate regulations, despite opposing the agency’s...
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