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Renee Schoof
Report: Greenhouse gases imperil oceans' web of life
Corals, lobsters, clams and many other ocean creatures — including some at the bottom of the food chain — may be unable to withstand the increasing acidity of the oceans brought on by growing global-warming pollution, according to a report Tuesday from the advocacy group Oceana. | 11/11/08 00:01:00 By - Renee Schoof
Probe sought of Bush handling of Alaska oil-spill case
The case is one in a pattern, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in which the Bush administration imposed small penalties in major pollution and safety cases. The specific case involves a criminal probe of BP for a 2006 oil spill in Alaska. An EPA investigator wanted more time to develop toughter criminal charges, but the Justice Department turned him down and imposed a $20 million fine — far less than EPA employees recommended. | 11/10/08 18:08:00 By - Renee Schoof
Bush officials moving fast to cut environmental protections
In the next few weeks, the Bush administration is expected to relax environmental-protection rules on power plants near national parks, uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and more mountaintop-removal coal mining in Appalachia. Many will be finalized before Thanksgiving, so the 60-day waiting period will have expired before the Obama administration takes over. | 11/06/08 16:11:00 By - Renee Schoof
With time short, Bush pushes EPA to relax power-plant rule
The Environmental Protection Agency is working at the Bush administration's direction on a new rule that would weaken regulations for power plants, allowing them to increase emissions without adding pollution controls. | 10/27/08 17:58:00 By - Renee Schoof
EPA weakens new lead rule after White House objects
After the White House intervened, the Environmental Protection Agency last week weakened a rule on airborne lead standards at the last minute so that 60 percent fewer polluters would have their emissions of the potentially dangerous chemical monitored. | 10/23/08 19:34:00 By - Renee Schoof
World agency urges storing carbon emissions underground
The United States and other G-8 nations should spend about $20 billion in the next decade to add the technology at 20 large-scale demonstration projects in order to work out problems and cut risks, the International Energy Agency said. Capturing emissions from factories and burying them deep min the Earth is one of the best ways to deep cut the pollution that's warming the planet. | 10/20/08 15:47:00 By - Renee Schoof
Energy: McCain and Obama share goals, if not strategies
WASHINGTON — John McCain and Barack Obama share remarkably similar energy policy goals, but they disagree on how best to achieve them. | 10/20/08 15:34:00 By - Robert S. Boyd and Renee Schoof
After 30 years, EPA toughens lead-emissions standard
The amount of lead that can be emitted into the air in the U.S. will be dramatically reduced under a new rule the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday to protect the health of millions of Americans — especially children. | 10/16/08 15:23:00 By - Renee Schoof
Climate change: Scientists say next president needs to act
On the big picture, Barack Obama and John McCain agree — with a shared sense of urgency — that the U.S. can't keep pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere unchecked, because their accumulation threatens to bring rising seas, mass extinction of plants and animals, and more hunger, disease and natural disasters. | 10/16/08 15:00:00 By - Renee Schoof
Memos tell wildlife officials to ignore global-warming impact
The legal opinions about the Endangered Species Act come as the Bush administration seeks to change regulations to reduce the role that government wildlife experts have in protecting animals from the effects of climate change. | 10/14/08 17:50:00 By - Renee Schoof
U.S. taps Canada's oil sands — but at what cost?
For decades, the U.S. has vowed to reduce its dependence on imported oil and to find a reliable source to meet the nation's growing oil needs. Now, Canada offers a solution. While oil supplies are dwindling in some places, or disrupted by hurricanes, threatened by terrorist attacks or controlled by hostile governments, Alberta's oil sands — a patch of forest about the size of Florida with a sea of oil beneath it — produce more crude than all the wells in Texas or Alaska. | 10/12/08 06:00:00 By - Renee Schoof
Government has till 2010 to designate polar bear habitat
Environmental groups and the Bush administration reached a partial court settlement on Monday that requires the Department of Interior to designate critical habitat for polar bears by June 30, 2010. That means the decision won't come until well into a new administration's term. | 10/06/08 19:11:00 By - Renee Schoof
Poll: Obama, McCain supporters agree on alternative energy
Most of John McCain's and Barack Obama's supporters favor government backing for alternative energy such as wind and solar power, even if those sources of energy are more expensive than coal and oil, a national poll released Tuesday finds. By contrast, 19 percent of Obama's supporters and 34 percent of McCain's supporters favored more emphasis on building new oil- and coal-fired power plants. | 09/23/08 01:00:00 By - Renee Schoof
Physicists: U.S. could cut oil use with better houses, cars
The U.S. can reduce its dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse-gas emissions by making cars and buildings much more energy efficient, according to a study released Tuesday by a large national association of physicists. Among the suggestions: roofs that reflect rather than absorb sunlight. | 09/16/08 14:57:00 By - Renee Schoof
Study finds recent global warming unprecedented in 1,300 years
A new scientific study adds evidence that temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere fluctuated a bit over time, but that the sharp increase during the past few decades is bigger than anything in at least 1,300 years. | 09/12/08 15:33:00 By - Renee Schoof
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