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EPA chief: Agency feeling heat from right and left
October 14, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency faces an "unprecedented … overreaction" as Republicans put Clean Air Act rules at the center of their political attack on so-called "job-killing" regulations, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said on Friday. But Jackson noted that several Obama administration moves also have angered environmentalists and some Democrats. The ...
Key Romney environment official now at Obama's EPA
September 23, 2011 President Obama can thank Republican Mitt Romney for more than the Massachusetts health care law that helped shape Obama's national health care plan. One of Romney's former top state environmental officials during his tenure as Massachusetts governor now oversees air quality at Obama's Environmental Protection Agency, playing a key role ...
Promise of jobs from solar, wind power a hard sell in the desert
August 30, 2011
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SEARCHLIGHT, Nev.-- It's easy to find Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's house in his tiny desert mining hometown. "You looking for Dirty Harry? Just look for the house with the wind turbine in the yard and the big solar panels on the roof," said a patron at the Searchlight Nugget ...
Canada-Texas oil pipeline gets preliminary State Department nod
August 26, 2011 The Obama administration on Friday took a key step toward approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL project, a 1,700-mile, $7 billion pipeline that would bring 700,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada to Texas. The State Department, which has final say over whether the project is in the ...
Environmentalists hail Grand Canyon ruling
June 20, 2011 In a move hailed as a major victory by environmentalists, the Obama administration on Monday set in motion a plan to ban uranium mining on more than one million acres around the Grand Canyon in Arizona for 20 years. At a press conference held on the canyon rim, Interior Secretary ...
Pentagon unveils sweeping Energy strategy
June 14, 2011 The Pentagon on Tuesday unveiled its first Operational Energy Strategy," a plan to fundamentally transform the way fuel is used in the theater of war. Clean-energy advocates have heaped praise on the plan, saying it could also drive major energy innovations in the commercial sector. The strategy is a formal ...
Pentagon wants to spur a revolution in clean energy
May 31, 2011
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For American drivers, $4-a-gallon gasoline is painful: It bites deeply into household incomes at a time when millions of people are stretched to a breaking point. But for the U.S. military, the cost of fuel is a magnitude greater--and a matter of life or death. Fuel shipments account for the ...
Boehner signals willingness to look at big oil's tax breaks
April 26, 2011 House Speaker Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on Monday that Republicans should consider President Obama's proposals to cut tax breaks for oil and gas companies. In each year of his administration, President Obama has proposed rolling back the approximately $4 billion in annual tax incentives enjoyed by the oil companies-an ...
Chu says Japan crisis may top Three Mile Island
March 16, 2011 Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress that the explosions at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant "actually appear to be more serious than Three Mile Island," referring to the 1979 meltdown near Harrisburg, Pa., that led to a three-decade freeze on nuclear-plant construction in the U.S. "To what extent [it's worse], ...
Tea partier wants to scrap Energy Department
February 7, 2011 As this year's stormy federal budget battle kicks off, the Energy Department is becoming a political football. For tea party Republicans with a bloodlust for slashing government spending, Energy is a top target. In January, GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky introduced a bill to slash $500 billion in government ...
