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U.S. Democrats hit Andrew Wheeler's environmental rollbacks at EPA during hearing
Acting Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler described himself as a champion of deregulation and the environment at his confirmation hearing Wednesday, even as a leading Democrat called him "just as extreme" as predecessor Scott Pruitt. The Republican-controlled Senate Environment and Public Works Committee was ...
Trump makes ex-coal lobbyist's position as chief of U.S. environment agency permanent
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler to run the agency permanently, the White House said, placing a former energy lobbyist at the helm of the nation's top environmental regulator. The widely anticipated nomination provides Trump another avid supporter of ...
The year in energy — moving backward
The ugly truth is that the emissions battle will be won or lost (and at present is being lost) thanks to the energy policies of China, India, the U.S. and Russia.
Trump EPA orders rollback regulations that limit mercury from coal-fired power plants
The Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation. The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the ...
U.S. fossil fuel export boom spurs growth and raises climate worries
In South Korea's largest shipyard, thousands of workers in yellow hard hats move ceaselessly between towering cranes lifting hulks of steel. They weld together the latest additions to the rapidly growing fleet of tankers carrying superchilled liquefied natural gas across the world's oceans. The boom ...
With final goodbye, Germany to shutter last black coal mine, bringing end to 200-year business
Germany will close its last black coal mine on Friday, a milestone marking the end of a 200-year-old industry that once fueled the country's economic growth but lost the battle against cheaper foreign competitors. The remaining 1,500 workers at the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop will ...
Protesters at U.N. climate talks disrupt U.S. event pitching fossil fuel and clean coal tech
Groups representing indigenous peoples and youth disrupted a U.S. government event at United Nations climate talks Monday, criticizing the Trump administration's policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. About 100 protesters stood up and chanted "Keep it in the ...
Trump to roll back Obama-era carbon rule, opening door for new coal plants
The Trump administration took aim at two Obama-era environmental policies on Thursday to boost the oil and coal industries, proposing to open up a wildlife habitat to drilling and mining and to remove hurdles to the construction of coal-fired power plants. The moves, part of ...
China's unbridled export of coal power seen as imperiling climate goals
Even as China struggles to curb domestic coal-fired power and the deadly pollution it produces, the world's top carbon emitter is aggressively exporting the same troubled technology to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, an investigation by AFP has shown. The carbon dioxide emissions from ...
Hundreds protest detention without bail of Greenpeace activists in Slovakia
Hundreds protested in Bratislava on Monday against the detention without bail of 12 Greenpeace activists who staged a protest at Slovakia's largest brown coal mine, a move that the EU country's president and premier have both criticized. Protesters gathered in the city center touted banners ...
Nations facing imminent environmental disaster called Monday on rich polluters to help them back from the brink, as the U.N. warned the world's plan to avoid climate catastrophe was "way off course. From glaciers melting in Nepal to the rising seas threatening to engulf small ...
Nations most threatened by rising sea levels and devastating droughts will use a U.N. summit in Poland on Monday to urge richer countries to pay their fair share in the climate change fight. The presidents of at-risk states such as Fiji, Nigeria and Nepal are ...
