11:21 AM 05/13/2013
California regulators authorized San Diego utilities last week to collect billions of dollars which will go toward costs associated with the state's environmental and energy policies.
3:34 PM 05/10/2013
President Obama's top campaign donors are urging him to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to help move the U.S. away from fossil fuels and toward more green energy, and his supporters compared vetoing the pipeline to President Abraham Lincoln ending slavery.
12:43 PM 05/10/2013
The Obama-aligned group Organizing for Action is once again attacking members of Congress for questioning the science behind global warming.
4:33 PM 05/09/2013
Two school children who call themselves “Earth Guardians” sang an anti-fracking rap song -- “What the Frack” -- in front of a group of students at Evergreen Middle School in Colorado.
11:34 AM 05/08/2013
Another alternative vehicle company that received a federal loan guarantee from the Obama administration has quietly closed its doors and laid off all its employees after it failed to meet financial benchmarks required to keep getting taxpayer dollars.
11:17 AM 05/08/2013
Despite the Obama administration's generous support for green energy, job creation in the sector has both lagged and come at a hefty cost to taxpayers, according to a new report.
9:58 AM 05/08/2013
The American ammo shortage has been a boon for foreign ammo makers as ammunition imports into the U.S. doubled during the first months of 2013.
9:47 AM 05/08/2013
The Boy Scouts of America will another way for scouts to earn their environmental credit by adding a merit badge for “sustainability” in July 2013 as part of the group’s requirement to advance to the level of Eagle Scout.
11:18 PM 05/07/2013
Taxpayer advocates have complained about waste and abuse in Washington, D.C., but across the Atlantic, British lawmakers are arguing that they should have cheaper alcohol in their parliamentary pubs.
1:25 PM 05/07/2013
Wildfires are burning up thousands of acres in the western U.S., a fact the Obama administration points to as evidence that Washington needs to get serious about addressing global warming.
10:14 AM 05/07/2013
A mining policy group is urging Congress to investigate the Environmental Protection agency’s relationship with an environmental consulting firm that recently admitted to falsifying a key report in a multi-billion dollar environmental lawsuit.
11:11 PM 05/06/2013
The coal industry may be catching a break, as coal-fired power generation has been on the rise due to rising natural gas prices, according to government energy projections. But the industry believes this "coal renaissance" will be short-lived as looming environmental regulations make it impractical to build a coal plant in the U.S.
12:50 PM 05/03/2013
Some blame the Obama administration’s “war on coal,” others cheap natural gas or falling demand, but one thing is indisputable: Coal mining employment took another tumble in April, shedding 1,600 jobs from the previous month.
11:15 AM 05/03/2013
New analysis shows that the coal industry is in for some tough years ahead, as more than 280 coal-fired generating units are slated to be shut down in part due to stricter Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
11:23 AM 05/02/2013
Kentucky coal miners have been hit hard by job losses. Coal employment has declined 30 percent across the state since last year, and some counties have seen coal jobs plummet by nearly 70 percent.
2:28 PM 05/01/2013
Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter has released more emails from former Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson’s alias email account -- Richard Windsor -- revealing that Jackson was using the account to correspond with environmentalists.
10:44 AM 05/01/2013
The luxury hybrid maker Fisker Automotive is in dire financial straits after receiving $192 million in government-backed loans and receiving market assistance from tax credits, and if the company goes bankrupt it could become the largest loss to taxpayers since the failure of Solyndra in 2011.
3:20 PM 04/30/2013
On Friday, 13 House Democrats signed onto a resolution saying that the failure to halt global warming could force more poor women into prostitution.
10:55 AM 04/30/2013
House Republicans are questioning the Energy Department's jobs estimates from green energy companies that participated in the ambitious loan guarantee program and seeking information on the number of actual jobs created.
4:50 PM 04/29/2013
Scientists at the U.S. government's Earth Systems Research laboratory in Hawaii reported Monday that the concentration of carbon dioxide could pass 400 parts per million for the first time in the next few days.
