The Environmental Protection Agency announced it will award a total $4 million in grants to 20 communities nationwide for brownfields property cleanup assistance.
Ten cities nationwide, including San Francisco and Seattle, joined an initiative led by 350.org to divest municipal holdings in fossil fuel companies, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.
The Department of Agriculture and the dairy industry agreed to renew a 2009 pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by the end of the decade, The Associated Press reports.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had the legal authority to retroactively veto a water pollution permit for one of West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal coal mines years after it was issued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Wisconsin utilities agreed to spend $1.2 billion on upgrades to coal-fired power plants and pay a fee to settle Environmental Protection Agency allegations of violating air pollution rules, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The American Public Health Association voiced approval for the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed measures to reduce water pollution from power plants, saying the rules will protect American health, UPI reports.
The New York Times examines the problems plaguing the European Union's carbon trading market, including low carbon allowance prices that limit the program's ability to reduce carbon emissions.
A Senate committee vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency appeared late Friday to be delayed until May.
A spokesman for Environment and Public Works Committee ranking Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said no vote is planned before senators leave on recess at the end of next week until May 6.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday that a new Environmental Protection Agency lawsuit disclosure policy will help it and other groups intervene in lawsuits intended to force new regulations.
Bill Kovacs, a chamber senior vice president, said the EPA's decision to post weekly updates of notices to sue the agency came after multiple Freedom of Information Act requests by the chamber for the information.
Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe is tying his vote to support Environmental Protection Agency administrator nominee Gina McCarthy's confirmation to a reversal of policies he calls a "war on fossil fuels."
Inhofe, a Republican who sits on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on Thursday released a letter he sent earlier in the week to McCarthy asking for responses questions on pending greenhouse gas regulations, EPA's hydraulic fracturing study and two other Clean Air Act issues. He said the answers would determine if he would support her nomination.
The United States and the European Union plan to negotiate settlements with China for the import of cheaper Chinese solar panels into Western markets, The New York Times reports.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a case from an Alaskan village arguing it should be allowed to sue energy companies for climate change damages, Reuters reports.
Business and policy groups including the Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce called on the Senate to approve the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency bill, The Hill reports.
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell told the Interior Department his administration is willing to invest up to $50 million in an assessment of oil reserves of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomberg reports.
Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee called on the EPA to suspend rulemaking for stormwater runoff until the agency opens the process to small businesses.
