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  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    US property developers cheer Supreme Court decision limiting oversight of water pollution

    Experts say ruling undercutting Environmental Protection Agency’s authority will lead to dumping of pollutants into water bodies

    Water flows along the All-American Canal
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    US regulator vows ‘aggressive’ crackdown on oil and gas methane leaks

    EPA head Michael Regan prepares tough new rules on emissions of potent greenhouse hydrocarbon

    Michael Regan
  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    Oil & Gas industry
    Oil industry condemns first US fee on greenhouse gases

    Methane charge of up to $1,500 a tonne clamps down on pollutant 80 times more potent than carbon

    Natural gas flares as oil is pumped in the Bakken shale formation
  • Monday, 11 July, 2022
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    The Supreme Court has weakened legal predictability in America

    Turn to the right has consequences not just for social issues but economy and business

    Abortion rights activists protest at the Federal Courthouse Plaza after the overturning of Roe Vs Wade
  • Wednesday, 6 July, 2022
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    Supreme Court EPA ruling puts regulators in handcuffs

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    The San Francisco skyline with smoke billowing from multiple wildfires.
  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    US Supreme Court curbs EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

    Landmark ruling deals a blow to Biden administration’s fight against climate change

    Emissions rise as a US flag flies at a coal-fired power plant in West Virginia
  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
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    Plus, soaring petrol prices haven’t convinced Americans to buy electric vehicles, a survey says

    Security fencing outside the US Supreme Court in Washington
  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
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    US environment agency chief defends push for greater oil supply

    Increased production of fossil fuel and clean energy transition are not ‘mutually exclusive’, says Michael Regan

    Michael Regan, head of the Environmental Protection Agency
  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    Climate change
    Asset managers dismiss Biden’s methane clampdown as too lenient

    Move to regulate leaks of potent greenhouse gas would exempt small wells from oversight

  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
    Energy Source
    Biden’s methane rules could face a decade of delays Premium content

    Plus, analysts’ predictions for this week’s Opec+ decision

    A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, North Dakota
  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Biden will not back down on climate plans, says environmental agency chief

    US regulator to release new vehicle rules ‘in weeks’ with crackdown on methane emissions to follow

  • Monday, 3 May, 2021
    Climate change
    US plans crackdown on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators

    Global hydrofluorocarbon phaseout could avoid up to 0.5C of warming by 2100, EPA says

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Oil & Gas industry
    Trump overturns rules on methane leaks

    Environmental Protection Agency frees oil and gas industry from Obama-era regulation

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    Trump eases environmental rules during pandemic

    Administration steps up effort to take on Obama-era protections for air and water

    Andrew Wheeler, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, says President Donald Trump is seeking to make good on his promise to pare back burdensome regulation
  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
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    Regulators act to ringfence group’s bank as former head released from custody on €5m bail

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    Trump weakens states’ veto power over energy projects

    Environmental Protection Agency move cheered by fossil fuel groups

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2019
    Ethanol
    Trump administration biofuels policy angers US farmers

    Details of plan sow discord in rural states critical to president’s re-election chances

    A cob of corn is seen in field during the harvest in Minooka, Illinois, September 24, 2014. Corn prices, trying to consolidate after falling to a four-year low as a record-large U.S. harvest pick up speed and as continued reports of spectacular early U.S. yields and softening cash markets hang over the market. Contracts held above lifetime lows in overnight trade. Photo taken September 24, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES) - RTR47PBB
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
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    Reforms are aimed at Midwestern states crucial to president’s re-election prospects

    FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Kernels of corn are seen on a cob in a field in Kienheim, France, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler/File Photo
  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
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    Fossil fuel industry loses out in policy switch

    Farmer Bruce Wessling checks a corn field for flooding near Grand Junction, Iowa, U.S., July 5, 2018. Picture taken July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Scott Morgan
  • Tuesday, 17 September, 2019
    Pollution
    Donald Trump to try to stop California vehicle emissions standards

    US president has attacked move to impose tougher regulations at the state level

    Car Emissions Contribute To Global Warming...LONDON - MARCH 31: A commuter on a scooter navigates his way through a traffic jam on March 31, 2006 in London. Britain's CO2 emissions, which have gone up by a quarter of a percent, rose for the third year running between 2004 and 2005. (Photo by Bruno Vincent/Getty Images)
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
    US politics & policy
    Trump administration rolls back clean water rule

    Farmers and heavy industry cheer while green groups threaten legal action

    Andrew Wheeler, acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaks during an event at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Wheeler said the Trump administration is repealing a landmark Obama-era waters regulation to bring regulatory certainty to businesses, but a new version of the rule isn’t expected for months. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    Gillian Tett
    Trump’s position on climate change is due a rethink

    Investors and CEOs should ponder what would happen if Republican attitudes shift

    Mandatory Credit: Photo by MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10330505b) Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency Andrew Wheeler (L) delivers remarks beside US President Donald J. Trump (R), during an event held to discuss the Trump administration's environmental and energy policies; in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 08 July 2019. White House event on the Trump administration's environmental policies, Washington, USA - 08 Jul 2019
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2019
    Energy sector
    Trump administration unveils rules to help coal industry

    New emissions policy comes as US power plants shift to wind, solar and gas

    FILE - In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration announced on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, that it has rolled back a landmark Obama-era effort targeting coal-fired power plants and their climate-damaging pollution. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)
  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    Biofuels
    US pleases corn farmers with fuel ethanol rule

    Trump administration lifts blending cap at the start of summer travel season

    Corn plants grow in Churdan, Iowa, U.S., on Friday, May 17, 2019. Stockpiles of U.S. corn ethanol sank to the smallest since July even as production of the biofuel climbed, Department of Energy data showed on Wednesday. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2019
    US politics & policy
    Climate change not top environment priority, says new EPA chief

    Trump appointee says clean water and affordable energy are bigger challenges

    FILE PHOTO - A visitor walks near the receding waters at Folsom Lake, which is 17 percent of its capacity, in Folsom, California January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/File Photo - RC12ACBA2A80
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