President Obama plans to announce his nomination of U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy to lead the agency and MIT physicist Ernest Moniz to lead the Department of Energy, a White House official said this morning.
If confirmed by the Senate, the two would play critical roles in...
As executive director of Washington Conservation Voters, Bruce Gryniewski helped shape the organization into one of the state’s most influential environmental groups.
Five years after leaving for a consulting firm, Gryniewski has resurfaced as a player in one of the biggest environmental...
The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case challenging U.S. Forest Service rules restricting the use of motor vehicles in Eldorado National Forest.
In Public Lands for the People v. U.S. Department of Agriculture, miners and prospectors hoped the court would overturn a 9th U.S....
California legislative leaders are withdrawing a controversial proposal to reduce the scope of the state's premier environmental law.
The president of the state Senate backed away yesterday from a proposal to shield projects from lawsuits under the California Environmental Quality Act,...
Responding to a challenge from environmental groups, U.S. EPA yesterday defended its decision to not set a more stringent air standard for pollutants that contribute to acid rain.
EPA last April opted not to tighten its secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards for nitrogen oxides...
Cotter Corp. has told Colorado public health overseers it would cost more than $895 million to remove the 15 million tons of radioactive uranium tailings from the company's dismantled mill along the Arkansas River.
Disposing of the tailings elsewhere would require 455 trucks a day for 5½...
Leaders still aren’t sure what to do about the Uinta Basin’s odd winter ozone problem even though it’s clear now that emissions from the oil and gas industry are causing the pollution.
"There is so much we have learned, but there is so much more we need to learn," said Uintah County...
New Mexico's largest electricity provider will shutter two coal-fired units and burn natural gas at the San Juan Generating Station in the Four Corners area under a tentative agreement between the state and U.S. EPA over a long-disputed regional haze cleanup plan.
