WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alarmed by a sharp decline in EPA enforcement, 55 environmental groups and 144 EPA alumni urged the Senate to expedite the long-delayed confirmation of a veteran environmental crime prosecutor as EPA’s chief of enforcement. David M. Uhlmann, a law professor at the University of Michigan and former chief environmental crimes prosecutor at […]
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Power Plant CO2 Pollution Fell 38 Percent From 2005 to 2020
Washington, D.C. February 25, 2021 – New EPA data shows that greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants plummeted 38 percent from 2005 to 2020, even more rapidly than the goals in the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and achieved more than a decade early. Driving the decline was a shift away from the burning of coal, […]
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Greenhouse Gases from Oil and Gas Expected to Rise Again After COVID Recession
Washington D.C. December 17, 2020 – Although greenhouse gas pollution from oil and gas drilling is expected to decline this year during the recession, emissions jumped 34 percent from 2016 to 2019, and are expected to rise another 15 percent by 2026 as the U.S. economy and energy industry recover. This is according to a […]