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Ever since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the EPA has been obliged to apply the Clean Air Act to greenhouse gases. After a long, methodical, and transparent agency process, EPA’s first carbon regulations are set to kick in come January 2011 – unless someone stops them – and many are trying. We’re following the fight and more.
This Week in Clean Economy: Five states fail to pass anti-Agenda 21 laws, with Arizona being the most high profile. Bills remain alive in three states.
A high-profile bill in Arizona to abolish sustainability efforts died last week, yet its defeat isn...
May 11, 2012
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Department of Environmental Conservation will decide by end of year whether to continue a state-wide ban on hydraulic fracturing.
A four-year-old hydraulic fracturing study by New York's Department of Environmental Conservation...
Apr 19, 2012
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With one eye on the polls and the other on energy goals, Obama appears conflicted and confounded by greenhouse gas emissions.
WASHINGTON—Those expecting a consistent climate change message from the White House are having...
Apr 2, 2012
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'There are no current rules under development on that issue,' EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson tells Congress.
Election-year politics, $4-a-gallon gasoline and an anti-regulatory fervor on Capitol Hill have...
Mar 8, 2012
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Long-delayed effort by EIA will quantify a decade of energy efficiency gains and focus decision-makers around higher standards.
The recent explosion of efficiency efforts across the country has slashed energy use in U.S....
Mar 7, 2012
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Most of the biggest polluting industrial boilers are in manufacturing states east of the Mississippi River, but 68 dot the West coast states.
WASHINGTON—Industries in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina will have the most...
Feb 29, 2012
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EPA’s endangerment finding and tailpipe, tailoring and timing rules to face legal challenges in a single case consolidated from dozens of lawsuits.
WASHINGTON—Opponents intent on blocking EPA's "endangerment finding" and the agency's other efforts...
Feb 27, 2012
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The first quotas for green vehicles in the largest car market could have broad national impact, but will there be enough consumer demand?
If all goes as planned, more than a million ultra-clean cars will be zipping around California in...
Feb 8, 2012
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A legal brawl over a low-carbon fuel rule will shape the appetite of global markets for Canada's dirtier crude.
A high-stakes legal battle is underway in California over whether the state's clean air agency can...
Jan 20, 2012
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The electric car industry begins 2012 with a bleak sales picture. Cellulosic ethanol has its own bad news, while the clean energy trade war spreads.
Electric vehicles failed to gain traction in the mainstream market last year, which saw lackluster...
Jan 6, 2012
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