Portugal's Secretary of State for Energy Artur Trindade said financially struggling eurozone nations require European Union assistance in establishing low-carbon economies, Platts reports.
President Barack Obama's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency cleared her first hurdle on Thursday, but her confirmation remained under threat of a Republican filibuster on the Senate floor.
Gina McCarthy won the endorsement of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on a party-line 10-8 vote, with ailing Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., attending the voting session. All of the votes against her were cast by Republicans.
The Environmental Protection Agency assessed fines against two Seattle-area gas stations and ordered them to close underground injection wells to protect the Yakama Reservation's water supply, The Associated Press reports.
China's climate negotiator said the country is unlikely to import carbon credits amid a push by global diplomats to develop a new emissions market, Bloomberg reports.
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals.
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman and Attorney General Patrick Morrisey criticized EPA air quality rules for industrial sites and called for their withdrawal, The Associated Press reports.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A decades-old effort to nurse the battered Great Lakes to health has made progress toward reducing toxic pollution and slamming the door on invasive species, but the freshwater seas continue to face serious threats, a U.S.-Canadian agency said Tuesday.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the Justice Department to join the European Union's probe of possible oil price manipulation, Reuters reports.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane said the NRC can't consider a public hearing on the San Onofre nuclear plant until June, when an appeal period of an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board ruling ends.
Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., introduced a bill that would ensure that only domestically-made biofuels can be used to meet the Renewable Fuel Standard, The Chattanoogan reports.
A federal judge refused to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Interior Department's power to ban new hard rock mining projects on federal land, The Associated Press reports.
Tesla Motors increased the value of its stock and debt offerings 30 percent to $1.08 billion to gather reserves and pay back its Energy Department loans, Bloomberg reports.
Poland called on the European Union to end energy subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable sources and cut oil imports to better combat climate change, Bloomberg reports.
The first well reports from the Utica shale in Ohio show a significant supply of natural gas but not as much oil as some energy companies were expecting, Reuters reports.
