Tag: Climate Change

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy: "These standards are a win for public health, a win for our environment, and a win for our pocketbooks." (AP/Kevin Cederstrom)

Energy and Environment

EPA finalizes new gasoline sulfur limits

Zack Colman · March 3, 2014 12:00 am

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., right, and Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., co-chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, sent a letter to President Obama about their environmental justice concerns. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Liberals: Global warming (i.e., fossil fuels) hurts low-income Americans

Ashe Schow · February 28, 2014 5:00 am

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Climate change and the perils of inaction

Steve Chapman · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

"Nothing can be agreed internationally until enough is agreed nationally," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

International legislators plan global climate push ahead of 2015 UN talks

Zack Colman · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Surface melt water rushes along the surface of the Greeland Ice Sheet, through a supra-glacial stream channel, in July 2012 in the southwest of Ilulissat, Greenland. Polar ice sheets are now melting three times faster than in the 1990s, but so far it's added just less than half an inch to already rising global sea levels. (AP Photo/Ian Joughin)

Beltway Confidential

Study: Global warming will cause murders and rapes

Ashe Schow · February 27, 2014 5:00 am

Large sections of pipe are shown on a neighboring property to Julia Trigg Crawford family farm in Sumner, Texas. (AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Energy and Environment

Internal watchdog: No Keystone XL conflict of interest for State Department contractor

Zack Colman · February 26, 2014 5:00 am

The public is increasingly worried about effects of climate change, John Podesta, a White House counselor on climate issues, said. (Getty Images File)

Energy and Environment

Obama climate adviser John Podesta vows flexible power-plant rules

Bloomberg News · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - This Oct. 15, 2013, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington the day the court's justices said they would be reviewing whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in developing rules aimed at cutting emissions of six heat-trapping gases from factories and power plants. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, the Court will hear arguments on the unanimous federal appeals court ruling that upheld the government's unprecedented regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Climate case at Supreme Court looks at EPA’s power

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Several lawsuits, bundled together into one case, oppose an Environmental Protection Agency program that requires large industrial sources to obtain Clean Air Act permits for their greenhouse gas emissions, which is blamed for global warming. (Thinkstock)

Supreme Court takes on greenhouse gas emissions case

Sean Lengell · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

U.N. Secretary General: Bloomberg Made NYC a ‘Carbon-Free City’

U.N. Secretary General: Bloomberg Made NYC a ‘Carbon-Free City’

Jeryl Bier · February 21, 2014 5:41 pm

Obamaâs most significant and controversial action on climate change was pushing new regulations limiting carbon emissions from power plants. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Obama goes green with executive push on climate

Brian Hughes · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

Former U.S. Geological Survey Director Marcia McNutt, shown here in September 2010, has come out in support of the pipeline. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)

Energy and Environment

Another former Obama official backs Keystone XL as review hits snag

Zack Colman · February 21, 2014 5:00 am