Tag: Water Pollution

Those reporters received a later email sent around 9 a.m. that included a blog post from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, above, and Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary for the Army for Civil Works with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

EPA shuts out Examiner, others from water rule announcement

Zack Colman · May 28, 2015 3:04 am

BIGGS, CA - MAY 08: Water flows in an irrigation canal on May 8, 2015 in Biggs, California. As California enters its fourth year of severe drought, farmers are struggling to keep crops watered as wells run dry and government water allocations have been reduced or terminated. Many have opted to leave acres of their fields fallow. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

EPA issues new rule expanding reach over waters

Zack Colman · May 27, 2015 2:44 pm

A radioactively-contaminated container at a nuclear power plant. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Senate panel advances energy and water spending bill

Zack Colman · May 21, 2015 6:01 pm

Energy and Environment

Farmers, Congress take aim at EPA water rule

Zack Colman · May 19, 2015 9:00 am

Chevron's may have hoped to gain favor with Clinton and the State Department during a major pollution case. (AP)

Clinton’s Chevron ties

Sarah Bedford · May 9, 2015 9:00 am

The plastic beads go down a drain and are too small to be caught when the water is treated at a sewage plant. (Photo courtesy of 5 Gyres)

Energy and Environment

Congress seeks to ban plastic beads in cleansers

Robert King · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

Energy and Environment

N.Y. AG: Study shows microbeads in majority of samples from 34 state wastewater-treatment plants

LocalLabs News Service · April 22, 2015 3:30 pm

Energy and Environment

Poll: Americans split on fracking

Zack Colman · March 23, 2015 12:58 pm

Republican lawmakers are considering a fresh round of oversight through various committees and drafting legislation on the rules that they and their industry allies say are duplicative and could threaten U.S. oil and gas development.

Energy and Environment

GOP, industry plot to handcuff fracking rule

Zack Colman · March 21, 2015 9:00 am

In this June 4, 2010 file photo, a worker picks up blobs of oil with absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Energy and Environment

BP spars with states, feds over Gulf of Mexico health

Zack Colman · March 20, 2015 9:00 am

"You can't talk about energy unless you talk about climate change," Jewell said. [AP Photo

Energy and Environment

Fracking rules coming ‘in days,’ says Secretary Jewell

Zack Colman · March 17, 2015 5:51 pm

McDonald's says it plans to start using chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine and milk from cows that are not treated with the artificial growth hormone rbST. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Energy and Environment

McDonald’s cuts antibiotics from chicken supply

Zack Colman · March 4, 2015 7:06 pm