Sen. Bond
WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s red pen will stay in his pocket during Tuesday’s mark-up of the sweeping cap-and-trade climate bill.
That’s because Bond and his six fellow Republicans on the 19-member Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will boycott the mark-up…
Sen. Bond
WASHINGTON — It’s barely news any more when Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., aims a broadside at anti-global warming legislation given his adopted role as one of Congress’s most persistent critics.
Nor is there much new in the deepening regional rivalry over climate change legislation…
WASHINGTON — What Congress giveth, Congress also taketh away.
That’s the concern of Midwestern ethanol-makers and their corn farmer brethren in the aftermath of a surprisingly strong report by the Government Accountability Office concluding that ethanol’s 45-cent per gallon tax credit is unnecessary.
Congress’s…
WASHINGTON — Midwest farmers argue that the Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t know beans about farming.
That’s essentially what the St. Louis-based American Soybean Association contends in an offensive opened this week aimed at persuading the EPA to back off proposed new rules that…
Mississippi River
WASHINGTON — A lot has been made about the Obama administration’s environmental initiatives and plans for a bulked-up EPA budget spending a third more next year on protecting air, water and land.
But are Midwestern states getting what they need to attack…
UPDATED WASHINGTON — It looks that way, and environmentalists are worried after seeing today what White House Office of Management and Budget analysts are writing internally about the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposals.
Some of the OMB remarks that can be found at Regulations.gov sound a…
A mountaintop removal site in West Virginia. Photo courtesy of Vivian Stockman/Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
WASHINGTON — The politics of coal may have changed drastically today after the Environmental Protection Agency released two letters criticizing potential mountaintop removal mine sites.
One of the two proposals is…
WASHINGTON — Aside from beef and milk, cows make a lot of something else: methane.
Which is why if the Environmental Protection Agency comes to regulate greenhouse gasses, cattle farms could be subjected to new permits and fees — a separate field…
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the first step toward regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, setting in motion what is shaping up as a huge political battle in Washington.
The EPA’s new administrator, Lisa Jackson, said this afternoon that…
