The Trump EPA withdrew a request (initiated by the Obama EPA) for data on methane emissions from the US oil and gas industry. What happened: The Trump EPA withdrew a request (initiated by the Obama ...

PARIS (December 12, 2015)—Today a comprehensive climate agreement, aimed at accelerating efforts to address threats posed by global climate change, has been forwarded for adoption at the United ...

WASHINGTON (May 14, 2015)—The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has ruled that it can grant an operating license to a controversial Department of Energy (DOE) plutonium fuel processing plant without ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Biden administration today finalized the sale of five offshore wind leases in California, marking an important next step toward the first-ever U.S. offshore wind projects in the ...

WASHINGTON (March 21, 2018)—Congress is poised to pass an omnibus spending package that outright rejects the funding cuts proposed by the Trump administration. Below is a statement by Ken Kimmell, ...

WASHINGTON (May 9, 2013) — U.S. agriculture is at a crossroads: continue the polluting, soil-depleting industrialized farming methods of the past, or invest in modern practices of the future. A policy ...

WASHINGTON (June 29, 2015)—The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollutants. Below ...

WASHINGTON (November 25, 2015)—Nations from around the world will convene for climate talks in Paris, France from November 30 through December 11. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (March 7, 2019)—In the waning days of the 2019 legislative session, the New Mexico Senate has voted to pass the Energy Transition Act (SB 489), which calls for generating 80 percent of ...

WASHINGTON (February 22, 2013) – An administrative law judge for the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued a preliminary decision. The decision may result in energy companies ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 12, 2018)—The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, led by Senator Marc Pacheco (Taunton) and Sen. Jamie Eldridge (Acton), introduced clean ...

WASHINGTON (December 11, 2018) – Months after the previous farm bill expired, the congressional farm bill conference committee released its 2018 Farm Bill Conference Report. Like the Senate version of ...