Buried within a routine order, a 3-2 majority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unveiled a new policy on May 18 that limits FERC's analysis and disclosure of the environmental impacts of natural gas pipeline projects. The policy undermines…
The decision is a hopeful one for those in the pipeline’s path and for the environmentalists who have spoken out loudly against the project’s threat to communities, waterways, wetlands, and wildlife.
The U.S. House Committee on Science, Technology and Space should be an important national asset. Under the chairmanship of Rep. Lamar Smith, R-TX., it’s become something of an embarrassment, with some of its members routinely betraying a shocking ignorance about…
The American people deserve better than Scott Pruitt—they deserve an EPA that will protect their clean air, water, and bedrock environmental safeguards from big polluters and the special interest lobbyists Mr. Pruitt seems to be so close with.
Dominion’s latest long-term plan to deliver energy to Virginia doesn’t ring true―or reflect already demonstrated reality―when it comes to their assessment of cutting carbon in Virginia. In fact, they get it exactly backwards.
The deeply flawed farm bill that failed in the House of Representatives today contained extraneous provisions that would have threatened public health, harmed bees and endangered species, and polluted our environment.
A bi-partisan group of Senators and Members of House of Representatives have introduced legislation to determine why it so difficult for repeatedly flooded-homeowners to obtain assistance to move to higher ground. Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Tim Scott (R-SC) have…
Report: Illinois doesn't need the Dynegy-Vistra coal plants to keep the lights on. The analysis also concludes that replacing these plants with renewables and gas would save Illinoisans up to $14 billion and improve public health.
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