The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the bid of the power industry to put on hold US president Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan while legal battles wage on.
The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen for installing illegal software to cheat emissions tests. The Volkswagen civil lawsuit is seen by officials as the first step to protect public health from air pollution.
Probable legal challenges to proposed cuts in the 2014 U.S. biofuel mandate could focus on a two-word phrase dropped from the U.S. law establishing the renewable fuel program back in 2005: distribution capacity.
The tweet from the Office of Water of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday read, "I'm now a C-List celebrity in Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. Come join me and become famous too by playing on iPhone!"
According to industry supporters, the Obama administration will be finding an ally with the US Supreme Court in its proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that would curb greenhouse gas emissions by 30% on average from 2005 levels.
US senator Mitch McConnell's key cause to boost his chances in the May 20 Senate primary is to bar potential measures that could restrain or shutter down coal plants in the state of Kentucky, Bloomberg reported.
Companies in the fossil-fuel business will be forced to shell out money in compliance to the US government's set of measures to curb emissions blamed for global warming, Bloomberg reported.
US Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso told reporters that the explosion that happened at an ammonium nitrate storage facility in West, Texas, could have been preventable, Businessweek said.
The agreement reached by the Environmental Protection Agency and oil company BP Plc, which will allow the latter to bid for contracts and leases, involves compliance to certain stipulations to ensure that a disaster similar to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill will not happen again, Bloomberg said.
