Category — Environmental News

On July 22, 2010, Senate Democrats held a caucus meeting  to discuss strategies for passing energy legislation in the Senate, after which they announced that they have temporarily abandoned plans to introduce a comprehensive bill before the August recess including either cap-and-trade of carbon emissions or a renewable electricity standard.  [Read more →]

On July 22, 2010,  a House Appropriations subcommittee, on a vote of 7-7, rejected a proposal to impose a two-year delay on the Environmental Protection Agency (”EPA”) regulation of greenhouse gases (“GHG”) from stationary sources.  The proposal, introduced as an amendment to the Interior and Environment fiscal-year 2011 spending bill, would have imposed a two-year moratorium on the EPA’s ability to regulate GHGs from power plants and other stationary emitters. [Read more →]

On July 6, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed its long-expected rule replacing the Clean Air Interstate Rule (“CAIR”).  [Read more →]

On June 28, 2010, Environmental Protection Agency (”EPA”) Administrator Lisa Jackson signed the final rule for Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gases from Underground Coal Mines.  This rule amends the mandatory greenhouse gas reporting regulations that EPA issued last year (see September 24, 2009 issue of the WER).  [Read more →]

On June 15, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its analysis of the American Power Act of 2010, sponsored but not yet formally introduced by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT).  [Read more →]