By | HuffPost | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
By mmali@thehill.com (Miranda Green) | The Hill | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
SENATE CONFIRMS CONTROVERSIAL NOMINEE: The Senate confirmed President Trump's pick for a key energy agency Thursday over Democrats' objections that he is too biased for the job.The 50-49 vote along party lines means Bernard McNamee, a Republican and...
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER / AP | TIME | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency acted again Thursday to ease rules on the sagging U.S. coal industry, this time scaling back what would have been a tough control on climate-changing emissions from any new coal plants. The latest Trump administration targeting of legacy Obama administration efforts to slow climate change comes in the wake of multiplying warnings from the agency’s...
By | Reuters | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
The Trump administration took aim at two Obama-era environmental policies on Thursday to boost the oil and coal industries, proposing to open up a bird's wildlife habitat to drilling and mining and remove hurdles to new coal-fired power plant construction.
By Jeff Brady | NPR | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
The Trump administration wants to reverse a rule that would have required new coal plants to have expensive technology to capture their carbon dioxide emissions. (Image credit: Branden Camp/AP)
By Shannon Osaka | WIRED | 2 months 2 weeks ago | Science & Environment
This week's climate talks in Katowice, Poland, are taking place in a region that is not at all prepared to quit its coal addiction.
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