Tag: Greenhouse Gases

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, a sea of stacks, pipes and storage tanks are amassed along the Houston ship channel in Houston. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Texas on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, authority over greenhouse gas permitting ending a lengthy, often bitter battle between the Lone Star State and the federal agency. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

EPA shifts greenhouse gas permitting to Texas

Ramit PlushnickMasti · February 5, 2014 12:07 am

Some of about 500 miles worth of coated steel pipe manufactured by Welspun Pipes, Inc., originally for the Keystone oil pipeline, is stored in Little Rock, Ark. (AP/Danny Johnston)

Energy and Environment

White House tempers expectations of Keystone XL boosters

Zack Colman · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama arrives at the TransCanada Stillwater Pipe Yard in Cushing, Okla., in March 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Beltway Confidential

UPDATED: Final Keystone XL environmental report due Friday

Ashe Schow · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California stands beside a wall full of his legislative accomplishments in his Capitol Hill office after announcing his retirement, in Washington on Thursday. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Retirement of Rep. Henry Waxman leaves climate void

Zack Colman · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

The proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline would not significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions, the State Department said Friday in a long-awaited environmental report, delivering a victory for the pipeline's boosters and a blow to environmental and left-wing groups that oppose it. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

State Department gives Keystone XL a passing environmental grade

Zack Colman · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

A wooden stick with a pink ribbon marks the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline, near Bradshaw, Neb., on March 11. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

MIT professor: Keystone XL pipline won’t increase greenhouse gas emissions

Ashe Schow · January 30, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony at Compact Power, Inc., a battery plant in Holland, Mich., in July 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Obama stresses US position as climate leader

Zack Colman · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard is pressing for member states to settle on a general direction for climate policy in time for a Sept. 23 summit, where U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is seeking pledges that can underpin a treaty limiting emissions to be approved in 2015. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Energy and Environment

Europe dividing over most ambitious limits: Carbon & climate

Associated Press · January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Nancy Sutley is leaving the White House Council on Environmental Quality after five years as its chairwoman. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Green, business groups jockey over looming emissions review policy

Zack Colman · January 18, 2014 5:00 am

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has withdrawn a shareholder proposal at FirstEnergy with the utility agreeing to report on its plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (AP/Mike Groll)

Energy and Environment

New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli pulls FirstEnergy shareholder proposal

Associated Press · January 16, 2014 5:00 am

The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its authority in developing rules aimed at cutting emissions of six heat-trapping gases from factories and power plants. The justices said Tuesday they will review a 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)

Beltway Confidential

Supreme Court to hear case on greenhouse gas regs

Sean Higgins · October 15, 2013 4:00 am

Obama Proposes Cap and Trade

Daniel Halper · February 13, 2013 2:17 am