Environmental groups across Appalachia spoke out at public hearings in four states on a Bush administration-backed proposal to relax restrictions preventing mining activity near waterways.
The groups oppose exempting valley fills , in which rubble from mountaintop removal mining is dumped in nearby valleys , from the 20-year-old rule restricting mining activity near streams.
“Enough is enough!” [...]
New York and 15 other states on Tuesday urged federal regulators to put teeth into a proposed pollution rule aimed at making U.S. electric utilities reduce smog and global warming emissions when they expand or modernize their coal-fired power plants.
“Pollution from coal-burning power plants and other facilities cause real problems throughout the United States [...]
FirstEnergy Corp. violated federal and state air pollution laws at a western Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, according an environmental group.
PennFuture notified Akron, Ohio-based FirstEnergy Inc. on Tuesday that it intends to sue over alleged pollution at the Bruce Mansfield plant in Shippingport, about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The plant violated opacity standards, which relate to [...]
Environmental groups are blaming loss of wildlife habitat and fewer hunting spots in the West on Bush administration energy policies that spurred a boom in oil and gas drilling.
Drilling on federal lands in five Western states doubled over the past decade to more than 2,000 wells per year, according to a report released Wednesday by [...]
Environmentalists who sued Duke Energy Corp. over upgrades at its coal-fired plants say a proposed EPA rule undermines their U.S. Supreme Court victory and would give utilities a free hand to pollute.
At issue is how the government measures air pollution from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other sources.
Environmentalists say the pollution should be [...]
A House committee Wednesday subpoenaed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to find out what she knew about the 2003 claim that Iraq sought uranium from the African country of Niger.
The uranium claim, which President Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address, was a key element in the administration’s case for the invasion [...]
The Bush administration is challenging a coal mine proposed in British Columbia, saying it poses an environmental threat that could extend south of the border.
The mine that Cline Mining Co. proposed just north of Glacier National Park could cause “significant adverse environmental effects” the United States, the U.S. State Department said in a letter to [...]
SEATTLE - The Bush administration has objected to a proposed open-pit coal mine in Canada near the Montana border, citing the potential for irreversible environmental damage to Glacier National Park, pristine trout streams and the largest natural lake in the West.
The objection — in a Feb. 23 letter from the State Department to the provincial [...]
The Homeland Security Department is testing a data-mining program that would try to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. The program, similar to a Pentagon program Congress killed in 2003 over concerns about civil liberties, could take effect as early as next year.
But researchers [...]
The Jersey Shore needs to be protected from the risk of oil spills by a permanent ban on drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, Sen. Bob Menendez said Thursday.
Menendez introduced a bill that would impose the ban after New Jersey’s environmental commissioner told a Senate committee that “development for oil and gas off our coast has [...]
