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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.
Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.
Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

President Obama speaks Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EPA to limit emissions from oil, gas drilling sites

President Obama on Tuesday took yet another step in his ambitious climate-change agenda, hitting the oil and gas industry with a set of unprecedented regulations aimed at limiting methane emissions.

August 18, 2015
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday she was "deeply sorry" for her agency's wastewater spill from Colorado's Gold King Mine. (Associated Press)

Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator, ‘deeply sorry’ for wastewater spill

EPA administrator Gina McCarthy broke her silence Tuesday on the agency's wastewater spill from Colorado's Gold King Mine by saying she was "deeply sorry," but that wasn't enough to stave off a demand for congressional oversight into the accident and the agency's fumbled reaction.

August 11, 2015
FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo, Delta Air Lines 747-400 airplane sits parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Delta Airlines on Monday, Aug. 3, 2015 said that it would no longer accept lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo hunting trophies. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Airline carbon emissions limit urged by environmentalists

As the Obama administration moves ahead with regulations limiting emissions from aircraft, environmentalists are urging the federal government to take a hard line on the airline industry as part of the broader effort to combat climate change.

August 11, 2015

Gina McCarthy, EPA administrator: Gold King Mine spill ‘pains me to no end’

In her first public comments since Environmental Protection Agency crews unleashed toxic mine sludge into the Animas River, agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Tuesday the incident "pains me to no end" and she pledged that the federal government will do whatever it takes to restore water quality in the region.

August 11, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama’s Clean Power Plan faces opposition from black, Hispanic leaders

The White House's carbon emissions regulations have opened a major rift between President Obama and some black and Hispanic leaders who fear the climate change policies will drive up poverty in low-income areas, kill jobs and raise electricity rates for families that can least afford it.

August 6, 2015
Ronnie Walters of Madison, Mississippi, casts his ballot Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, for the primary elections at the old Victory Church precinct on Old Canton Road in Madison, Miss. (Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

White House not sold on moving election day to weekend

President Obama on Thursday pushed more Americans to vote and blasted voter ID laws that he says keep some from the polls, but the White House wouldn't support calls to move election day to the weekend in order to increase access.

August 6, 2015