Tag: Environmental Protection Agency
EPA: Colorado mine spill 3 times larger than estimated
EPA crew accidentally released toxic water from Gold King Mine into Animas River The EPA says the mine waste spill from the Gold King Mine into Colorado waters is much larger than originally estimated. But an Environmental Protection Agency official said Sunday that she doesn’t believe wildlife will suffer significant health impacts from the wastewater from an […]
EPA crew releases toxic orange mine sludge into Colorado river
Orange sludge flowing south toward New Mexico, Utah – EPA An eerie yellow sludge that poured out of a shuttered gold mine and into a southwestern Colorado river was inching its way downstream toward New Mexico and Utah, according to the EPA. Federal officials said Friday the spill contains heavy metals including lead and arsenic, […]
Clean Power Plan: Mandated carbon cuts to be steeper than expected
EPA will unveil Clean Power Plan Monday, year after President Obama proposed steep GHG cuts President Barack Obama and his Clean Power Plan will impose even steeper cuts on greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants than previously expected, senior administration officials said Sunday. The President called the Clean Power Plan the most significant step […]
Political fight coming over EPA’s new fugitive methane reduction program
Industry cautious, eco-activists displeased with Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program, designed to reduce fugitive methane emissions The EPA can’t seem to get it right. Eco-activists want fugitive methane emissions regulated, industry wants voluntary measures, and both sides are uncertain about the Natural Gas STAR Methane Challenge Program, launched Friday. In January, the White House announced a goal of cutting methane […]
Clean Power Plan: EPA must compare cost to benefits
EPA justifies over-each like Clean Power Plan with “exaggeration and hyperbole” – Hartnett White In the wake of huge U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the Affordable Care Act and same-sex marriage, another ruling has almost been overlooked. But it could mean the end of the Obama administration’s disastrous Clean Power Plan. “In a 5-4 decision today, […]
Clean Water Act lawsuits launched by Texas, North Dakota
States, agencies claim Clean Water Act restricts private property rights, tangles owners in red tape The Environmental Protection Agency is facing several lawsuits over its new rule that gives federal agencies authority to protect some streams, tributaries and wetlands under the Clean Water Act. Thirteen states led by North Dakota filed a lawsuit Monday, as well as the […]
Fracking has not caused ‘impacts on drinking water’ – EPA report
Fracking study will be finalized after review by Science Advisory Board, public review and comment The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that hydraulic fracturing – commonly known as fracking – has “not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources” in its eagerly awaited report. But the assessment, done at the request of Congress, shows that there […]
Republicans confront Obama over global warming, EPA rules
Obama fighting GOP-dominated Congress over his environmental legacy The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more than 117 million people in the country. Not so, insist Republicans. They say the rule is a massive government overreach that could even subject puddles and ditches […]
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