Topic: Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

Transocean, Halliburton blast BP report on cause of blowout, oil spill

Transocean and Halliburtion, BP's partners on the blown-out well that led to the massive Gulf oil spill, reject findings in a new BP report that finds their workers partly to blame for the rig accident.

Did BP intentionally 'low-ball' the extent of the Gulf oil spill?

US Geological Survey estimates on the flow of oil from the wrecked wellhead are more than double what BP has been claiming, leading some to accuse BP of misrepresenting the flow of oil to minimize fines.

Coal lobbyists caught forging letters to Congress

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.

A government-run auto industry?

The $15 billion draft bailout comes with strict conditions and immense federal oversight.

Senate warms to a climate policy

Even though legislation fell to defeat, Friday’s debate marked the first time a majority backed a cap on carbon emissions.

Warm-up for a global-warming law

Congress to begin work on a bill the next president would be willing to sign.

Bush's 'caution' on CO2 seen as 'foot-dragging' by critics

Supreme Court has ruled that EPA can regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, but administration says deliberation needed.

Bush's 'caution' on CO2 seen as 'foot-dragging' by critics

Supreme Court has ruled that EPA can regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from cars, but administration says deliberation needed.