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The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.
A new Senate report argues the Trump administration has also pushed costs up by stifling clean energy.
Environmentalists in Guam and the Trump administration are squaring off over the Air Force’s disposal of hazardous munitions on a beach.
The battle to lower costs has reached the State Capitol, where concerns have emerged about the fate of a 2019 climate law and its ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
President Trump is trying to pull the rug out from under federal climate regulation. But the U.S. economy may no longer be standing on it. Why it matters: The energy transition is well underway and is unlikely to be reversed by Thursday's historic move. The big picture: America's emissions are projected to decline substantially even if major climate regulations are repealed, driven by falling renewable energy prices and cleaner natural gas outcompeting dirtier coal. Driving the news: The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday is expected to overturn the 2009 "endangerment finding," which determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. - The finding sets the foundation for federal regulation of climate pollution…
State environmental regulators will also fine the Energy Department up to $16 million for exceeding safe groundwater standards near the nuclear lab.
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
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Energy experts said that governors and legislatures have tools to keep electricity prices from rising further, and might even be able to lower them.