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Obama finally talks climate change. Now what will he do about it?
“We want our kids to grow up in an America… that isn’t threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.” That was the president in his acceptance speech Tuesday night. Now that Obama has won...
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Gina McCarthy for EPA could be Obama’s most significant nominee
The vast majority of President Obama’s second-term agenda on climate change and energy will go through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). And now we know who Obama wants to carry it all out:...
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Why the EPA might delay its carbon rules for power plants
Is the Obama administration planning to backtrack on its carbon rules for power plants? That’s the big environmental question on everybody’s mind lately. (F. Carter Smith/BLOOMBERG) The core of Obama’s...
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Was lax oversight to blame for the Texas fertilizer explosion?
Mark Drajem and Jack Kaskey of Bloomberg have a long piece Friday looking at whether lax regulatory oversight may have played a role in the deadly explosion of the West Fertilizer Co. retail facility...
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Is a carbon tax more effective than EPA rules? You might be surprised.
As part of President Obama’s new climate-change plan, the Environmental Protection Agency will design rules to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants. But is this really the most effective...
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Everything you need to know about the EPA’s carbon limits for new power plants
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on carbon-dioxide emissions for all new coal and gas-fired power plants built in the United States. It's the first major piece of the...
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Supreme Court allows EPA to keep regulating carbon — but will review a few...
The Supreme Court said on Tuesday that it would review one piece of the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate greenhouse gases. But the Court plans to leave much of the agency's efforts...
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Could the EPA push a carbon tax on its own? Maybe — here’s how.
Next year, the Obama administration will unveil its biggest climate-change policy to date — new rules to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from thousands of existing coal- and gas-fired power plants....
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