Tag: Global Warming

Count Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper out for a United Nations climate summit later this month. (Maurizio Gambarini/picture-alliance/dpa/AP images)

Energy and Environment

Canadian leader to skip UN climate summit

Zack Colman · September 11, 2014 4:42 pm

Energy and Environment

Carbon dioxide levels last year rose at fastest rate since 1984

Zack Colman · September 9, 2014 12:41 pm

Slowing the Rise of the Oceans

Eli Lehrer · September 8, 2014 4:00 am

The League of Conservation Voters anticipates spending $25 million this election cycle, amounting to a five-fold increase over 2010. (iStock Photo)

Energy and Environment

Environmental group to spend $25 million on midterms

Zack Colman · September 5, 2014 4:43 pm

The Environmental Protection Agency this week informed the United Nations aviation program that it had begun investigating whether airplane emissions endangered public health. ÃÂ (iStock image)

Energy and Environment

EPA takes step toward regulating plane emissions

Zack Colman · September 5, 2014 12:52 pm

Energy and Environment

EPA struggles to account for cross-state emissions reductions in power plant rule

Zack Colman · September 4, 2014 9:00 am

The compressed natural gas tank is seen stored behind the backseat in the trunk of a Honda Civic on Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, in East Liberty, Ohio. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Energy and Environment

Colorado buys CNG vehicles, but state workers fill’em up with petrol

Mark Tapscott · September 3, 2014 12:00 pm

The proposal would set new standards for areas outside of the power plants, which opponents contend is beyond the jurisdiction of the EPA. (Getty images/Chung Sung-Jun)

Energy and Environment

GOP lawmakers probe EPA

Zack Colman · September 2, 2014 9:07 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy noted drillers and states are missing out on potential revenues because the U.S. doesn't have sufficient pipeline capacity to absorb all the natural gas that's being developed -- instead, energy firms burn off the excess gas because they can't use it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

EPA chief mum on potential new fracking regs

Zack Colman · September 2, 2014 7:04 pm

The Obama White House has announced plans to negotiate and sign a climate accord, but there's no chance that an agreement will be ratified in the Senate. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

President Obama’s own inversion

Washington Examiner · August 28, 2014 10:56 pm

A joint Pew Research Center-USA Today poll of 1,501 adults found that 68 percent of Democratic respondents ranked climate change as a "major threat," compared with 25 percent of Republicans. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Chasm divides parties on climate change

Zack Colman · August 28, 2014 9:51 pm

State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. (AP)

Energy and Environment

State Dept.: Obama not side-stepping Senate on climate deal

Zack Colman · August 27, 2014 4:52 pm