BEIJING (AP) — China's Cabinet has announced measures to curb the country's notorious air pollution, one of the many environmental challenges facing the country that are increasingly angering the public.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters held the line Friday on a Colorado wildfire in which two people were killed as they tried to escape and 379 homes were destroyed.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, "Water Resource Issues in the Klamath River Basin." Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor among witnesses.
The Osage Nation tribe in Oklahoma voiced opposition to the Interior Department's wind energy proposal that would allow wind farms to kill up to three bald eagles a year, Reuters reports.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Scientists with the Smithsonian Institution have discovered at least one new fish species at a deep reef off Curacao while conducting a yearlong project to gather data on temperature and biodiversity for monitoring climate change effects in the Caribbean.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest brought soaking rains and heavy winds to the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages, flash flooding and extensive flight delays, but largely failing to live up to its fierce billing.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Firefighters have at least temporarily battled to a "draw" with a fast-moving fire that has already killed two people and destroyed at least 360 homes, giving weary authorities and residents the first glimmer of hope after three days of mounting damage, a sheriff said.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer will start consideration of a carbon emissions fee bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with a climate change hearing next month, The Hill reports.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest and plowed across the country was hitting the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages and flash flooding, but still largely failing to live up to its fierce billing.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington and promised a new cleanup plan by the end of summer, The Associated Press reports.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said Republicans will soon introduce a bill to establish Yucca Mountain as the nation's sole nuclear waste storage site, The Hill reports.
Bonnie Lautenberg, widow of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, has lobbied Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to push her husband's chemical safety legislation, Roll Call reports.
The International Energy Agency projected natural gas would become an important transportation fuel within the next five years on cheaper prices and air pollution concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Unlike most oil companies, BP is lobbying Congress to maintain the Renewable Fuel Standard based on its partnership with DuPont to develop a new alternative fuel by year's end, Bloomberg reports.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would make a strong candidate to fill her committee's empty seat if he wins the Massachusetts Senate election, The Hill reports.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., led a group of Republican senators to criticize the Obama administration's recent shift in the "social cost" of carbon in calculating the benefits of new regulations, The Hill reports.
Mining equipment manufacturers are improving machine efficiency and productivity to help mining companies counter high labor costs and declining prices, Reuters reports.
Ratepayers in Pittsfield, Mass. will see an increase in sewer costs as the city makes an estimated $40 million in EPA-required improvements to the system, the Berkshire Eagle reports.
