Water Pollution

Of the areas observed in the study, about two-thirds of ocean and 77 percent of waters in national exclusive economic zones experienced increased harm from human activity, based on a comparison of data between 2008 and 2013. (Getty Images file)

Energy and Environment

Climate change top ocean stressor: Study

July 16, 2015 5:15 pm

In this July 17, 2012, file photo, adult female walruses rest on an ice flow with young walruses in the Eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (S.A. Sonsthagen/U.S. Geological Survey via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

How to stop Shell’s Arctic drilling? With walruses, green groups say

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June 23, 2015 6:15 pm

In this Jan. 19, 2012, file photo time exposure image smoke rises from the stacks of the La Cygne Generating Station coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Energy and Environment

EPA has begun a regulations blitz

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June 13, 2015 4:01 am

$A truck used to carry sand for fracking is washed in a truck stop on February 4, 2015 in Odessa, Texas. The industry says the EPA's scope of what is considered fracking was too broad. (Getty Images)$

Energy and Environment

The new environmental fight: What is fracking, exactly?

Zack Colman -

June 5, 2015 4:01 am

Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation.

Energy and Environment

EPA: Fracking doesn’t systemically pollute water

Zack Colman -

June 4, 2015 5:50 pm

The new rule represents an attempt by the EPA to restore the near-universal power it wielded informally before the Supreme Court limited its activities last decade in two critical decisions. (Getty)

Energy and Environment

Congress should waive the new EPA rule

Washington Examiner -

June 4, 2015 4:01 am

Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan, speaks during a news conference urging Congressional Republicans to support sequestration relief in the upcoming budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

White House slams Senate spending bill over clean energy funding

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June 2, 2015 8:38 pm

Conservatives contend that public health and green groups have used environmental justice concerns to wrangle new regulations out of the EPA and slow down permitting that restrains the use of fossil fuels and other industrial activity. (Getty Image)

Energy and Environment

Pollution hitting minorities, low-income residents to get more EPA attention

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June 1, 2015 9:42 pm

Fourteen states encourage passage of Federal Water Quality Protection Act

LocalLabs News Service -

May 28, 2015 9:34 pm

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

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Tag: Water Pollution

Climate change top ocean stressor: Study

How to stop Shell’s Arctic drilling? With walruses, green groups say

EPA has begun a regulations blitz

The new environmental fight: What is fracking, exactly?

EPA: Fracking doesn’t systemically pollute water

Congress should waive the new EPA rule

White House slams Senate spending bill over clean energy funding

Pollution hitting minorities, low-income residents to get more EPA attention

Fourteen states encourage passage of Federal Water Quality Protection Act

EPA shuts out Examiner, others from water rule announcement

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