EPA Wants To Limit Greenhouse Gases From New Coal Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency's second stab at a proposal to set the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants would make it impossible for companies to build the kind...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Weigh EPA Permits For Power Plant Emissions
The Supreme Court has agreed to review an Obama administration policy that requires new power plants and other big polluting facilities to apply for permits to emit greenhouse gases.To get these...
View ArticleWidespread Plague In Wildlife Threatens Western Ecosystems
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish.Most Americans' experience with plague is limited to history...
View ArticleIs Running Your Car On Rubbish The Future Of Fuels?
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to scale back the amount of renewable fuels in our nation's gasoline supply, biofuels like ethanol made from corn. The...
View ArticleCalifornia, Colorado Consider Tough Oil And Gas Regulations
Colorado and California both just proposed new regulations for oil and gas production in their states. Both states have been pushed by environmental concerns to establish rules tougher than federal...
View ArticleSaving The Native Prairie — One Black-Footed Ferret At A Time
American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals...
View ArticleA Scientist's New Job: Keeping The Polar Bears' Plight Public
The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the wolf, grizzly bear and bald eagle, after hunting, trapping and pesticides almost wiped those animals...
View ArticleInterior Secretary Wants To Create Jobs For Conservationists
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has a goal of putting 100,000 young people and veterans to work on the federal lands she oversees before the end of the Obama administration. These are basically public...
View ArticleThe Big Impact Of A Little-Known Chemical In W.Va. Spill
The chemical that was found last week to be contaminating the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is used to clean coal. But very little is known about how toxic it is to people...
View ArticleTo Save Threatened Owl, Another Species Is Shot
In desperation to save the rare northern spotted owl, biologists are doing something that goes against their core — shooting another owl that's rapidly taking over spotted owl territory across the...
View ArticleDrinking Water Not Tested For Tens Of Thousands Of Chemicals
The fact that a second contaminant in West Virginia's drinking water eluded detection for nearly two weeks — despite intense testing of the water — reveals an important truth about how companies test...
View ArticleState Dept. Delivers Unwelcome News For Keystone Opponents
The U.S. State Department made a much-anticipated announcement on the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday. Its report finds that while the heavy crude oil that the pipeline will carry from Canada is dirtier...
View ArticleU.S. To Ban Commercial Trade Of Elephant Ivory
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We heard elsewhere in our program that conservation experts are meeting in London this week to try to crack down on the trade in illegal wildlife. Here in Washington,...
View ArticleIndustry Challenges EPA's Greenhouse Gas Rules In High Court
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for the biggest polluting facilities.The case focuses on a 3-year-old...
View ArticleColorado Becomes First State To Restrict Methane Emissions
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas from oil and gas production. The rules require companies to find and repair equipment leaks. The rules also will reduce air pollution that contributes to smog.
View ArticleBaton Rouge's Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil
If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray's house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you see more than a dozen plumes of exhaust...
View ArticleEPA Building Named For Bill Clinton; He Says That's Fitting
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View ArticleNevada Wildfire Could Snuff Out A Rare Butterfly
A big wildfire in a mountain range just west of Las Vegas has put at risk the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a rare species found in the U.S.The fire is dying down, but it may be weeks before experts...
View ArticleLa. Flood Board Sues Oil Industry Over Wetlands
Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost roughly as much land as makes up the state of Delaware."If you put the state of Delaware between New Orleans and the ocean, we wouldn't need any levees at all," says...
View ArticleSold! First Parcels Auctioned For Future Offshore Wind Farms
A Rhode Island company was the highest bidder in the federal government's first-ever auction for the right to build an offshore wind farm.After 11 rounds, Deepwater Wind outbid two other companies for...
View ArticleEPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to let oil companies continue to dump polluted wastewater on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This includes chemicals that companies add to the...
View ArticleThe Grid Of The Future Could Be Brought To You By ... You
The electricity system is experiencing growing pains these days. But it's not only demand for electricity that's expanding — it's the sources of electricity, particularly unpredictable kinds, like wind...
View ArticleN. America's Oldest Known Petroglyphs Discovered In Nevada
Ancient North Americans gouged elaborate rock art into a heap of big boulders northeast of Reno, Nev., more than 10,000 years ago and perhaps 15,000 years ago.
View ArticleBald Eagles Are Back In A Big Way — And The Talons Are Out
"It's a jungle if you're an eagle right now on the Chesapeake Bay," says Bryan Watts, a conservation biologist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. "You have to watch your...
View ArticleDebate Revs As Decision Stalls Over Oil Pipeline From Canada
Five years ago this week, a Canadian company proposed building a pipeline to send heavy crude oil from Alberta to U.S. refineries. Although the Obama administration's answer on the Keystone XL pipeline...
View ArticleWhy The Exxon Valdez Spill Was A Eureka Moment For Science
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill...
View ArticleInternational Ruling Puts Stop To Japan's 'Scientific' Whaling
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Whale lovers scored a major victory today. For almost two decades, Japanese whalers have been killing whales in the Antarctic Ocean. The Japanese government claimed it...
View ArticleFeds Hope $5 Billion Settlement A Lesson For Polluters
This week, the federal government announced a record-breaking $5 billion settlement in a remarkable environmental case. The toxic legacy of the company involved, Kerr-McGee, stretches back 85 years and...
View ArticleHigh Court Ruling Revives Law Against Out-Of-State Pollution
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Some communities are unlucky recipients of air pollution that blows in from other states and today,...
View ArticleWhite House Report Says Climate Change Is Here And Now
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block.ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Climate change is not a future problem for faraway places; it's affecting Americans...
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