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Critics have said the study was tainted because it was funded by the country's largest manufacturer of so-called glider trucks. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Energy and Environment

Watchdog deals blow to Trump EPA effort to help polluting trucks

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This photo taken May 5, 2014 shows the stacks of the Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pa. Three years ago, the operators of one of the nation’s dirtiest coal-fired power plants warned of “immediate and devastating” consequences from the Obama administration’s push to clean up pollution from coal. Faced with cutting sulfur dioxide pollution blowing into downwind states by 80 percent in less than a year, lawyers for EME Homer City Generation L.P. sued the Environmental Protection Agency to block the rule, saying it would cause a painful spike in electricity bills and grave harm to power producers like itself.
Energy and Environment

EPA unveils changes to key air pollution controls permitting program, citing business certainty

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Brett Kavanaugh, appeals court judge, speaks after being nominated as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by U.S. President Donald Trump, not pictured, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, July 9, 2018. Trump said he would nominate Kavanaugh for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, a choice that could create the most conservative court in generations and threaten landmark rulings including the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights decision.
Energy and Environment

Supreme Court allows Michael Mann defamation case against National Review to go forward

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Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Richmond, listens to debate on the floor of the Senate during the session at the Capitol.
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House Democrats plan 100% Clean Economy bill Thursday to unite party

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Mandy Gunasekara is returning to EPA as chief of staff after leading the agency's air-policy office.
Energy and Environment

Trump EPA watchdog nominee advances as senators look to smooth dispute involving agency chief of staff

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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, said that women have a responsibility to prevent sexual assault and harassment.
Energy and Environment

House Democrats slap EPA with subpoena over chemical risk program documents

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Republicans and Democrats are more divided over the issue of climate change going into the November election, but support more wind and solar. (iStock Photo)
Energy and Environment

Mullen Technologies' road to sell electric sports cars is paved by Tesla's success

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Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., is shown.
Energy and Environment

House Democrats near unveiling first plans for meeting goal of net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury

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Mandy Gunasekara is returning to EPA as chief of staff after leading the agency's air-policy office.
Energy and Environment

‘Meaningless statistics mongering’: Trump environment enforcers push back at criticism over declining numbers

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Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018.
Energy and Environment

Inspector general accuses EPA officials of giving staff 'free rein' to flout investigations

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