Energy and Environment
November 14, 2011 -
As Keystone XL pipeline protesters savor their victory, a battle for justice rages in the Gulf.
November 11, 2011 -
U.S. unions are bitterly split on whether an oil pipeline should be built between Canada and Texas. The conflict has hamstrung the Blue-Green Alliance, which unifies union and environmental efforts, as transit unions argue labor must look beyond its own interests.
November 11, 2011 -
A gusher of political cash is flowing into Congress from the natural gas industry to fight regulation of the environmentally risky drilling method known as "fracking."
November 7, 2011 -
An investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR has obtained a list of chronic Clean Air Act violators, and the South comes in second only to the Midwest in terms of the regions with the greatest number of polluters on it.
November 4, 2011 -
Christopher Horner, director of litigation for the global-warming denier group the American Tradition Institute, is one of the featured speakers at this weekend's Americans for Prosperity conference in Washington, D.C.
November 3, 2011 -
Soon after the EPA released new data showing the hazards of coal ash ponds, a massive bluff built of coal ash collapsed into Lake Michigan. So why are lawmakers still fighting strict federal oversight of coal ash?
November 2, 2011 -
The Dallas-based company received notice last week that it was being sued over an alleged 38,000 violations of the Clean Air Act at two of its coal-fired power plants.