U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Environmental Problems and Protection

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday unveiled the first-ever standards to slash mercury emissions from coal-fired plants, a move aimed at protecting public health that critics say will kill jobs as plants shut down.Facing fierce opposition from industry groups and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toxic contamination from coal ash, a waste product of coal-fired power plants, has been detected in ground water and soil at 20 sites in 10 U.S. states, an environmental watchdog group reported on Tuesday.These sites are the latest to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. environmental regulator said on Friday it slashed the cost of proposed pollution rules on industrial boilers by $1.5 billion year by allowing some plants to fine tune existing equipment or burn cleaner fuels.The Environmental Protection Agency, under ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will propose a long-delayed rule this week that aims to slash emissions of mercury, soot and lead from boilers and incinerators, a measure opposed by heavy industry and by Republicans in Congress."EPA ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, struggling with an ambitious agenda on clean air regulations, will likely delay proposing the country's first ever greenhouse gas limits on oil refineries, sources on both sides of the issue said.The EPA had been ...

(Reuters) - Proposed federal environmental regulations could shut about 13,000 megawatts of coal fired generation, boost power prices, threaten electric reliability and cost billions to retrofit or replace most of the region's existing coal fleet, according to U.S. power grid operator Midwest ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. environmental regulator will propose early next year twice-delayed rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, she told the energyNOW television show."I can't tell you what the regulations say right now, but what we are planning ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Energy and financial companies caught up in a scheme involving fraudulent renewable energy credits could now face civil fines from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The EPA has issued 24 notices of violation to more than a dozen companies, including ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats defeated a bill on Thursday that would have blocked federal environmental regulators from slashing power plant air pollution that blows downwind to other states and causes lung and heart problems.The bill, sponsored by Rand Paul, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats defeated a bill on Thursday that would have blocked federal environmental regulators from slashing power plant air pollution that blows downwind to other states and causes lung and heart problems.The bill, sponsored by Rand Paul, a Kentucky ...

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Topic: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. rolls out tough rules on coal plant pollution

Coal ash taints 20 U.S. sites: report

U.S. proposes less costly pollution rule on boilers

U.S. moves ahead with rule to cut boiler emissions

EPA seen delaying CO2 rules on oil refineries

EPA rules could shut 13,000 megawatts of Midwest coal plants

EPA to propose utility carbon rules next year

Companies cited by EPA for fake biofuel credits

Democrats ax bill to block US EPA clean air rule

Democrats ax bill to block EPA clean air rule

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