WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday to announce its final rule to rollback Obama-era automobile fuel efficiency standards, relaxing efforts to limit climate-warming tailpipe pollution and virtually undoing the government’s biggest effort to combat climate change. The new rule, written by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department … [Read more...] about U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change
Fracking Once Lifted Pennsylvania. Now It Could Be a Drag.
CARMICHAELS, Pa. — The last time the global economy was in free fall, an economic savior showed up in southwestern Pennsylvania. Energy companies, which had discovered a way to get at the state’s vast natural-gas reserves, invested billions of dollars in the region, cushioning the blow of the Great Recession.“There were just so many jobs,” Debbie Gideon, … [Read more...] about Fracking Once Lifted Pennsylvania. Now It Could Be a Drag.
Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Find Opposition Within: Staff Scientists
WASHINGTON — President Trump has made rolling back environmental regulations a centerpiece of his administration, moving to erase Obama-era efforts ranging from landmark fuel efficiency standards and coal industry controls to more routine rules on paint solvents and industrial soot.But all along, scientists and lawyers inside the federal government have embedded … [Read more...] about Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Find Opposition Within: Staff Scientists
The World Is Running Out of Places to Store Its Oil
The world is awash in crude oil, and is slowly running out of places to put it.Massive, round storage tanks in places like Trieste, Italy, and the United Arab Emirates are filling up. Over 80 huge tankers, each holding up to 80 million gallons, are anchored off Texas, Scotland and elsewhere, with no particular place to go.The world doesn’t need all this oil. The … [Read more...] about The World Is Running Out of Places to Store Its Oil
E.P.A., Citing Coronavirus, Drastically Relaxes Rules for Polluters
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a sweeping relaxation of environmental rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, allowing power plants, factories and other facilities to determine for themselves if they are able to meet legal requirements on reporting air and water pollution.The move comes amid an influx of requests from … [Read more...] about E.P.A., Citing Coronavirus, Drastically Relaxes Rules for Polluters