Topic: Clean Air Watch
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Energy Voices Fighting winter with fire? Wood-burning on the rise.
The number of US homes relying on burning wood for heat is up 24 percent since 2006. But environmental concerns could quash further growth of wood-burning.
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President Algae? Obama not green enough, say environmentalists
President Obama has blocked the Keystone pipeline, backed biofuels, and prioritizes the earth over people, say GOP presidential candidates. Environmentalists say Obama is a big disappointment. Who's right?
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EPA unveils 'historic' air pollution rules. Can power industry cope?
The EPA says its new rules to drastically reduce toxic air pollution will improve national health at a minimal cost. But the power industry says the rules could hurt the economy.
12/21/2011 06:02 pm -
Obama drops smog plan: Is it all about the presidential election?
Environmentalists say President Obama is dropping a plan to set new air-quality standards with one eye on on the presidential election. The administration says it is waiting for more research.
09/02/2011 05:51 pm -
EPA tells coal-fired plants to reduce pollution. Some may just shut down.
The details of new EPA regulations, released Thursday, mandate reductions in power-plant emissions. 'Old, decrepit plants' without pollution controls may be just too costly to retrofit and be shut down by their owners, say analysts.
07/07/2011 06:19 pm -
Is coal power headed for a downsizing in US?
Utilities may close up to 1 in 5 coal-fired power plants after tougher EPA air pollution rules go into effect next year, Wall Street investment banker Credit Suisse recently reported. Coal power is losing its price edge to natural gas, too.
10/20/2010 05:57 pm -
EPA moves to cut power plant emissions to fight air pollution
Citing health benefits of reduced air pollution, the EPA on Monday proposed requiring power plants in the central and eastern US to dramatically curb emissions by 2014.
07/06/2010 05:44 pm -
Governors prod Washington on renewable energy
Anxious over lack of progress on a new energy bill, a group of 29 state governors has sent the White House and Congress a list of renewable energy recommendations, seeking support for wind and solar projects.
03/16/2010 01:38 pm -
Senate battles EPA in greenhouse gas showdown
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson defended the agency's role in regulating greenhouse gas at a Tuesday budget hearing. Some Republican senators back a bill to strip the EPA of that authority.
02/23/2010 06:32 pm -
Texas, Virginia challenge EPA greenhouse gas finding
Virginia, Texas, and interested groups are going to court to challenge the science behind the EPA's ruling that greenhouse gases are a danger to human heath and welfare.
02/17/2010 02:31 pm -
EPA rules that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health
The EPA's announcement Monday advances two goals: It gives the US more clout at the Copenhagen UN global warming summit, and it nudges Congress to pass new greenhouse gas regulations.
12/07/2009 12:00 am -
Is a bad economy good for the environment?
A recession may be a cruel remedy for environmental degradation. But some experts say the earth welcomes the breathing room.
04/27/2009 01:00 am -
Bright Green EPA: 1 in 3 Americans breathing sooty air
The Environmental Protection Agency notified officials in 211 counties in 25 states that their air did not meet the agency's strengthened standards for levels of fine particles.
12/23/2008 12:00 am -
Bright Green Court reinstates EPA clean-air rule
A federal appeals court on Tuesday temporarily reinstated a Bush administration rule that sought to cut harmful pollution from power plants and other facilities in the Eastern US.
12/23/2008 12:00 am -
Bright Green Waxman unseats Dingell as House energy committee chair
To the delight of many environmental groups across the country, California Democrat Henry Waxman has ousted fellow Democrat John Dingell of Michigan from his post as chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
11/20/2008 12:00 am -
Bright Green Pollution ruling somehow manages to irk both White House and environmentalists
A Federal appeals court unanimously struck down an Environmental Protection Agency regulation Friday that requires states to reduce polluting emissions from power plants.
07/11/2008 01:00 am
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