US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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• EPA holds public hearings on new rules to cut carbon emissions

  29 Jul 2014: Opponents and supporters of proposed rules to cut pollution from power plants given chance to make their feelings known

• EPA blocks huge Alaska mine project with environmental restrictions

  18 Jul 2014: Copper and gold mine would have affected area as big as Manhattan and harmed state's largest salmon fishery

• Top 10 science and tech books for June: the double helix, addiction, London sewers and the infosphere

  24 Jun 2014: From the heroes of molecular biology to the Fourth Revolution, you can catch up with the latest scientific and technological thinking, writes Phoebe Yu

• US supreme court backs EPA plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants

  23 Jun 2014: Justices rule 5-4 to reaffirm most of the agency's authority to curb greenhouse gas pollutants, while also limiting powers' scope

• Thousands of fracking wells in Pennsylvania 'may be leaking methane'

  20 Jun 2014: Climate Central: Study finds abandoned wells could be bigger climate change contributor than thought

• EPA reaches deal with Duke Energy over coal ash spill

  22 May 2014: Duke will pay for cost of clean-up after spill coated 70 miles of the Dan river in North Carolina and Virginia

• GOP targets 'workplace improprieties' at Environmental Protection Agency

  7 May 2014: House oversight committee conducts aggressive grilling as new climate-change report prompts GOP attacks

• Barack Obama's emissions plan comes under new line of attack

  2 May 2014: Documents reveal co-ordinated campaign by influential lobbyists working to block the regulation of power plant emissions

• California lawmaker opens inquiry into EPA’s toxic waste cleanup program

  2 Apr 2014: US representative Anna Eshoo asks environmental agency to explain how it deals with pollution from shipping toxic waste

• Fracking safety: report warns of 'significant unknowns'

  25 Mar 2014:

  Sparse public data on onshore oil and gas drilling makes full extent of failures in hydrocarbon wells unknown, experts say

• I live next to Google – and on top of a toxic site. Don't let polluters be evil

  19 Mar 2014: Jane Horton: Ordinary people near EPA Superfund sites pay for corporate waste. So will future generations, if we don’t take polluters to task

• Big coal producer to pay record $27.5m fine for violating water pollution limits

  5 Mar 2014: Alpha Natural Resources Inc will pay $27.5m fine and spend $200m to reduce illegal toxic discharges in waterways

• US moves against Alaska gold and copper mine to protect salmon fishery

  28 Feb 2014: EPA move, hailed as victory for salmon fishermen and native tribes, didn’t amount to immediate veto on Bristol Bay project

• Obama rolls out plan to tighten fuel efficiency standards for large trucks

  18 Feb 2014: President Barack Obama orders federal agencies to create new standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by March 2016

• West Virginia calls for stricter regulation after chemical spill

  4 Feb 2014: State officials testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday as delegates proposed new laws to improve storage-tank regulation

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