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Obama's EPA is a regulator reborn

New rules roll out at faster pace under Obama

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

To appreciate the extent to which the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama is a regulator reborn, consider this: EPA officials have begun to cut air pollution by invoking the Clean Water Act.

Group uses new media in climate-change debate

Objective is to show cost

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009

A new advocacy group seeking to expose what it says will be the high cost of climate-change legislation to consumers is spreading its message with the same tools that catapulted President Obama into office: blogs, Twitter and other new media outlets.

Climate bill backers quit Chamber of Commerce

Obama policy splits businesses

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business trade association, has suffered the defection of five of its members over its hard-line opposition to pending climate change legislation.

White House pushes 35 mpg average by '16

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it wants cars and light trucks to average 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 to reduce fuel consumption and curb greenhouse-gas emissions.

EPA: Discharge curbs on big polluters

Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to limit its regulation of carbon-dioxide emissions to the nation's major polluting sources, environmentalist groups say.

Climate change bill to boost nuclear plants

Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009

Nearly half of the nation's nuclear power plants stand to earn a windfall if the climate-change bill passed by the House becomes law.

Climate change legislation postponed

Senate Democrats push back bill until later this month

Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009

The once-delayed climate change legislation has been postponed again, spelling trouble for a top item on President Obama's legislative agenda.

Climate bill would bloat federal agencies

Billions seen in new costs

Monday, Aug. 17, 2009

The House-passed climate change bill, if enacted, would expand the federal government so much that it would take billions of dollars and thousands of new employees to implement.

Speculators face limits on energy price spikes

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Intervention in the energy futures markets could be the government's next step to prevent a recurrence of last summer's price spikes at the gas pump.