United States Senator Edward Markey and Representative Jared Huffman announced on March 3 that they would reintroduce the Crypto-Asset Environmental Transparency Act in Congress. The move comes ahead ...
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The EPA Needs To Start Permitting Wells For Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
A pipe carries emissions to the Petra Nova Carbon Capture Project at the NRG Energy Inc. WA Parish … [+] generating station in Thompsons, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. The project, a ...
EPA Orders Norfolk Southern To Pay For Cleanup After Disastrous Ohio Train Derailment
Topline The Environmental Protection Agency ordered Norfolk Southern Railway to pay for the cost of cleaning up a derailment and massive chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio, on Tuesday, as the fede...
Agricultural Groups Among Plaintiffs Suing EPA For Revised Water Rule
Left to its own devices, water doesn’t remain still for long. The same could be said for regulations to define the federal government’s scope to control the discharge of pollutants and manmade sedimen...
IRA Spurs Clean Energy Boom, Electric Trucks Accelerate, Battery Demand Surges, EPA Cuts Power Sector Pollution
2022 was arguably the most important year in United States climate action: Landmark federal legislation and pro-climate state elections have paved the way for a clean energy boom in every corner of th...
EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes
Saltwater wetland, Waquoit Bay Estuarine Research Reserve, Mass. Photo: Ariana Sutton-Grier, CC BY-ND The Biden administration on Friday issued a rule that defines which types of waterways in the U.S...
Dimon Highlights Need For More Oil And Gas Investment As Vanguard Bails On ESG Group
UNITED STATES – SEPTEMBER 22: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, testifies during the Senate … [+] Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing titled Annual Oversight of the Nat...
EPA Rule Change Expected To Trigger Additional State Regulation, Exacerbate Inflation
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters Building in Washington DC getty Eleven states have passed legislation banning PFAS chemicals in food packaging and other consumer products. In three of tho...
Fed Money Comes To Plug Or Re-Plug Abandoned Wells In USA.
An orphan oil well, for which no one is taking legal or financial responsibility, sits abandoned in … [+] Kern County outside of Bakersfield, California The Washington Post via Getty Images Oil ...
You Probably Don’t Realize How Inefficient Internal Combustion Engines Are
One of the most frequent focuses of discussion between electric vehicle adopters and their critics is range. The usual argument is that fossil fuel vehicles can do 700 miles between refuels and take f...
Methane Emissions Reduction At The Oil Patch: How To Get There
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar MCKITTRICK, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 03: The sun sets beyond pumpjacks in the Belridge oil field on … [+] November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. The ...
New Lawsuit Would Overturn EPA Advisories Seen As Precursor To More State & Federal Regulation
Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters in Washington, D.C. getty In June the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released four new drinking water health advisories related to PFAS contaminatio...
Hyperpolarization Of Climate Policy – The Politics Of American Exceptionalism
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, UH Chief Energy Officer and Aparajita Datta, UH Research Scholar The terms likely to occur with climate, investors, & emissions — word size is proportional to rate … [...
House, Senate Democrats push regulators to demand data from Bitcoin miners
A group of Congress members including US Sen. Elizabeth Warren and US Rep. Jared Huffman sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday asking regulat...
US lawmakers ask about EPA, DOE monitoring of crypto mining emissions, energy consumption
Democratic legislators from both houses of the United States Congress have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Energy Department (DOE) to inform them of their findings on th...
Tesla Model Y With 500-Mile Range Could Already Be Here
At Tesla’s battery day back in September 2020, Tesla promised a 56% reduction in battery pricing from its next-generation 4680 cells. But these new, larger cells also allegedly offer greater energy de...
Members Of Congress Push Back On EPA’s Threat To The Permian Basin
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 21: Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) speaks to the media with members of the … [+] Republican Study Committee about Iran on April 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. The group has...
Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling
Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...
Steve Forbes Celebrates Supreme Court EPA Ruling
This episode of What’s Ahead analyzes how the recent Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency struck a magnificent blow against unbridled, unaccountable bureaucratic ...
How to buy a carbon-conscious fund in wake of Supreme Court EPA ruling
The Supreme Court last week limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change — and that may leave eco-conscious investors wonder...
Supreme Court Limits EPA, Nikola Founder Nixes Share Increases And How Climate Change Hurts Harvests
This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. Getty Images On Thursday, the Supreme Cou...
EPA Targets Permian Basin, Widening Biden’s War On Oil And Gas
WASHINGTON, D.C. – APRIL 22, 2018: A flag with the United States Environmental Protection Agency … [+] (EPA) logo flies at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Rob...
Supreme Court Clouds Future Of EPA Clean Air Rules, Threatening Climate Goals
Aerial view of coal power plant high pipes with black smoke moving up polluting atmosphere at … [+] sunrise. getty SCOTUS ruling could set back efforts to fight climate change, affect energy inv...
U.S. House Committee Urges the EPA to Consider the Merits of Mining Virtual Assets – crypto.news
In a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, the House Financial Services Review panel has asked Mr. Regan to meticulously explore the significant ecological effec...
14 Members Of The US Congress School EPA On Bitcoin Mining And Green Energy
The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA keeps receiving mail. This time, 14 members of Congress provided the counterpoint and pointed out the environmental benefits of bitcoin mining. They also mad...
US Lawmakers Urge EPA To Think About The Potential Crypto Mining Benefits
Fourteen US Senators and House Representatives have signed a letter altogether to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acclaiming what they believe about the benefits of crypto mining. A lo...
US lawmakers urge EPA to consider the potential benefits of crypto mining
A group of 14 United States senators and House representatives have signed a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency extolling what they believe are the benefits of crypto mining. In a Thursday ...
Congress Sends Letter to EPA Extolling Proof of Work Mining Benefits
U.S. Congress issued another letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday with more educational material on proof of work. This time, however, it came with a positive spin – and was...