Water Pollution

The new rule represents an attempt by the EPA to restore the near-universal power it wielded informally before the Supreme Court limited its activities last decade in two critical decisions. (Getty)

Energy and Environment

Congress should waive the new EPA rule

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2015 4:01 am

Office of Management and Budget Director Shaun Donovan, speaks during a news conference urging Congressional Republicans to support sequestration relief in the upcoming budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Energy and Environment

White House slams Senate spending bill over clean energy funding

Zack Colman · June 2, 2015 8:38 pm

Conservatives contend that public health and green groups have used environmental justice concerns to wrangle new regulations out of the EPA and slow down permitting that restrains the use of fossil fuels and other industrial activity. (Getty Image)

Energy and Environment

Pollution hitting minorities, low-income residents to get more EPA attention

Zack Colman · June 1, 2015 9:42 pm

Fourteen states encourage passage of Federal Water Quality Protection Act

Fourteen states encourage passage of Federal Water Quality Protection Act

LocalLabs News Service · May 28, 2015 9:34 pm

Those reporters received a later email sent around 9 a.m. that included a blog post from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, above, and Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary for the Army for Civil Works with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

EPA shuts out Examiner, others from water rule announcement

Zack Colman · May 28, 2015 3:04 am

BIGGS, CA - MAY 08: Water flows in an irrigation canal on May 8, 2015 in Biggs, California. As California enters its fourth year of severe drought, farmers are struggling to keep crops watered as wells run dry and government water allocations have been reduced or terminated. Many have opted to leave acres of their fields fallow. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

EPA issues new rule expanding reach over waters

Zack Colman · May 27, 2015 2:44 pm

A radioactively-contaminated container at a nuclear power plant. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Senate panel advances energy and water spending bill

Zack Colman · May 21, 2015 6:01 pm

Energy and Environment

Farmers, Congress take aim at EPA water rule

Zack Colman · May 19, 2015 9:00 am

Chevron's may have hoped to gain favor with Clinton and the State Department during a major pollution case. (AP)

Clinton’s Chevron ties

Sarah Bedford · May 9, 2015 9:00 am

The plastic beads go down a drain and are too small to be caught when the water is treated at a sewage plant. (Photo courtesy of 5 Gyres)

Energy and Environment

Congress seeks to ban plastic beads in cleansers

Robert King · April 28, 2015 9:00 am

N.Y. AG: Study shows microbeads in majority of samples from 34 state wastewater-treatment plants

Energy and Environment

N.Y. AG: Study shows microbeads in majority of samples from 34 state wastewater-treatment plants

LocalLabs News Service · April 22, 2015 3:30 pm

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Poll: Americans split on fracking

Zack Colman · March 23, 2015 12:58 pm