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Reports the end of the final legislative hearing on the Clear Skies Act of 2005 in the United States. Approach to reducing air pollution while spurring economic benefits; Expression of hope among senators on both sides of the issue that bipartisanship would prevail; Points dividing committee members.

Reports on the progress of the Congressional battle over how to reduce air pollution from power plants with consideration of the approach favored by the Bush Administration. Reintroduction of the Clear Skies Act as an amendment to the Clean Air Act; Act's aim to set limits on three major pollutants that affect human health.

Focuses on the environmental agenda of U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration and the Republican Party after Bush's re-election. Proposals to revamp laws on air pollution and endangered species; Energy bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration; Emphasis of the administration's environmental conservation efforts.

Reports on President George Bush's plans to send Congress details of his proposals for a new clean-air law, and the calls by New York City officials for tough new auto-pollution controls. Details warnings from the automobile industry that the changes needed to meet new standards will drive up costs and hurt fuel efficiency.

The article reports that New York lawmakers have agreed to pass Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act that would require New York to cut its planet-warming pollution 85% below 1990 levels by 2050, putting the state in a global leadership position. Topics covered include the bill's implications for New Yorkers, the bill's requirement that the state will get 70% of its electricity from renewable resources and how to implement the climate plan.

The article reports that governments from over 190 countries adopted a measure on October 6, 2016 to reduce the climate impact of international jet travel. Topics mentioned include a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, Quebec, thoughts from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the measure, and the plan of airlines to buy credits to offset emissions from individual flights.

The article examines government policy in the U.S. to control fuel emissions. Particular focus is given to how this relates to automakers and their struggles to meet the projected target of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. Additional topics discussed include the auto industry's views on the control of greenhouse gases, the administration of President Barack Obama and their pledges to reduce emissions, and the U.S. government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE).

The article reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a recall of nearly 500,000 automobiles built by Volkswagen between 2009 and 2015. According to the article, the vehicles have computers that are programmed to turn on pollution control equipment when state vehicle emissions testing is performed. In normal operation, the emissions control equipment is automatically and secretly turned off.

The article reports on 23 environmental rules rolled back in the U.S. president Donald Trump's first 100 Days including overturning of approval for the Dakota Access pipeline, cancelation of a requirement for reporting methane emissions and review of fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

The article offers information on the most-read business news reports published on the journal website, as of April 1, 2017, including one about stores for furniture and appliances to be opened by Amazon, one online privacy protections, and one regarding auto emissions rule in California.

The article discusses the United States Supreme Court's April 29, 2014 ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) has the authority to regulate pollution from coal-fired plants in Midwestern and Appalachian U.S. states that drifts to Eastern states. Topics addressed include other legal rulings allowing the E.P.A. to enforce stricter regulation of coal pollution, as well as the views of Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia.

The article discusses a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) by the governors of Northeastern U.S. states such as New York and Connecticut requesting tighter restrictions on air pollution released from coal plants in Midwestern U.S. states as of December 8, 2013. Topics addressed include the petition's relation to a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the U.S. Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, as well as concerns that pollution is carried to Northeastern states via wind.

The article reports on the plan to close the Carbon Power Plant, oldest coal-fired power plant in Utah because of new federal pollution regulations. It says that the utility that operates the plant Rocky Mountain Power has decided that the plan would be too expensive to retrofit. It mentions that the stricter regulations will lead in billion of dollars health saving, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

The article discusses the second inaugural address of U.S. president Barack Obama on January 21, 2013, reporting that the address emphasized the importance of reducing emissions in response to climate change. Topics include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the defeat of legislation that would have capped carbon emissions in 2010, and strategies intended to address political opposition in Obama's second presidential term.

The article reports on state laws that aims to improve the carbon emissions in Los Angeles, California, as part of the government's goal to extend its climate change legislation by 2030.

The article reports that the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has rejected a bid to block the regulation on emissions from coal-fired power plants, which was issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to tackle climate change.

In this article, the author discusses the carbon pricing regulation including efforts to reduce lower greenhouse gas emissions, direct tax on emissions and mentions special tax credits for low-income groups.

In this article, the author discusses the concerns of the U.S. Republicans on the Clean Power Plan on reducing carbon dioxide emission by coal-fired power plants, and mentions support for carbon capture technology.

The article looks at the environmental effects of lawn care. Details related to a study of the air pollution caused by lawn mowers, conducted by the California Air Resources Board, are reviewed. Also discussed is the political conflict generated by pending California legislation which would limit lawn mower emissions. According to the author, lawn mower engines now feature many of features of late-model automobiles.

The article discusses a proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to overhaul the way it calculates fuel economy ratings for cars and trucks. The agency said the new testing method would reduce mileage estimates by five to 30 percent. The agency expects to introduce the changes beginning with 2008 models. Consumer groups have long criticized the EPA's ratings as too optimistic. The new calculations will have the greatest impact on hybrid-electric vehicles, the agency said.

Focuses on air pollution in Southern California. Reference to smog problems of the 1950s; How the drive to clean California's air has reshaped the region's politics and made Los Angeles an international leader in its expertise; Observation that consistently healthy air for Southern Californians remains out of reach; Improvements in the area's ozone pollution; Concerns of scientists over diesel emissions from ships, locomotives and trucks; Background on the state's strict regulations; History of Southern California's fight against air pollution; Challenges regulating trains and container ships; The cost of cleaning up; Highest risk areas; Outlook.

Reports that New York City, in an effort to reduce harmful emissions while raising the fuel economy of its huge fleet of vehicles, is set to impose strict environmental standards on cars and vans it buys, and to require that diesel trucks and buses be modified. Outlook for the City Council to approve a wide-ranging package of environmental bills intended to reduce tailpipe emissions; How the additional costs of using clean fuel and modifying existing engines with filters will be offset by savings in fuel consumption and lower health care costs; Implications for the city; Other changes, including antipollution devices for school buses; The city's focus on cleaning up diesel engines that have been identified as major sources of pollution.

The author reflects on U.S. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell's call for governors to undermine the President Barack Obama administration's efforts to implement regulations that would limit power plant emissions of carbon dioxide.

The author argues against the Republican Party's attack on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposes regulations to reduce emissions of ozone in 2014.

The article reports on the plan of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency to introduce environmental regulation to curb emissions of ozone, a smog-causing pollutant linked to asthma.

Profiles President George Bush's air pollution legislation, that has recently been sent to Congress. Criticism from environmentalists and from industry. Prospects for the bill's passage.

Reports that in an effort to strengthen antipollution laws, President Bush proposed a costly array of new measures that could fundamentally alter the thrust of environmental efforts for decades to come. Amendment of the Clean Air Law of 1970 to cut allowable levels of sulfur dioxide in half; Proposed measures delineated. INSET: Three steps toward clean air..

The article focuses on the remarks of U.S. President Barack Obama about reducing carbon emissions and the steps take by the federal government for carbon reduction in Mountain View, California.

The author reflects on the Climate Action Plan of U.S. President Barack Obama that aims to reduce emissions and the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency in developing methane regulations,

The article reports on the hearing the U.S. Supreme Court involving regulations imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about how to hold states responsible for air pollution that drifts across their borders and causes harm in downwind states on December 10, 2013.

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new national air-quality standards that would significantly reduce levels of fine-particle soot, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the agency said Thursday. The rule, to be announced on Friday, would reduce the range of fine particulates allowed in the atmosphere by roughly 17 percent, according to proposed levels described by Paul G. Billings, a vice president of the American Lung Association, who said he had been briefed on the standard by Obama administration officials. A Thursday deadline had been imposed by a federal judge in a legal battle waged by 11 states and health and conservation groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When California's air regulators approved new car-pollution rules to cut down on smog and global warming, they included a provision that critics described as a loophole that could substantially reduce the number of electric vehicles sold in the state in coming years. Under the new Advanced Clean Cars Program rules, approved last month, automakers will be required, beginning in 2018, to sell an escalating number of automobiles and light vehicles in California that can run on electricity, fuel cells or other zero-tailpipe-emission technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As Congress weighs imposing a mandatory limit on climate-altering gases -- an outcome still far from certain -- it is likely to turn to a system that sets a government ceiling on total emissions and allows polluting industries to buy and sell permits to meet it. That approach, known as cap and trade, has been embraced by President Obama, Democratic leaders in Congress, mainstream environmental groups and a growing number of business interests, including energy-consuming industries like autos, steel and aluminum. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Among the many environmental indictments of the Bush administration is that it has failed in two terms to achieve any significant reduction in smog, acid rain, mercury and greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. Its one serious effort to reduce some of these emissions was shot down by the federal courts. And conditions could easily get worse -- weaker laws, more pollution -- if President Bush proceeds with a last-minute rule change aimed at stripping the Clean Air Act of one of its most important provisions. The provision, known as new source review, requires utilities to install up-to-date pollution controls whenever they significantly upgrade an older plant to produce more power. Written in 1977, it offers regulators one of the few ways to get a handle on pollution from hundreds of aging coal-fired power plants. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jason K. Burnett, Washington's environmental whistle-blower du jour, is an example of a once rare, now almost common, phenomenon: a political appointee willing to tell much of what he knows of the inner workings of the formerly opaque Bush administration. Mr. Burnett's full pitcher of tales about the administration's inner turmoil over air pollution regulation in general and climate change in particular has been poured deliberately, glass by glass, for a thirsty partisan crowd. More will be offered Tuesday when he appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Any major steps by the Bush administration to control air pollution or reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases came to a dead end on Friday, the combined result of a federal court ruling and a decision by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. In the morning, a federal appeals court struck down the cornerstone of the administration's strategy to control industrial air pollution by agreeing with arguments by the utility industry that the E.P.A. had exceeded its authority when it established the Clean Air Interstate Rule in 2005. The court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said the rule, which set new requirements for major pollutants, had ''fatal flaws.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nobody was greatly surprised last week when Stephen Johnson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, proposed new limits on smog-forming pollutants that were weaker than those his scientists had recommended -- and more to the liking of industry. In the Bush administration, contests between politics and science are usually resolved in favor of politics. The big surprise was Mr. Johnson's proposal to rewrite the Clean Air Act to allow regulators to take costs into account when setting air quality standards. Since this would permanently devalue the role of science while strengthening the hand of industry, the proposal has no chance of success in a Democratic Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article comments on the 2008 U.S. presidential election candidates addressing the issues of environmental policy in their election campaigns. It is stated that voters deserve an honest account of their visions related to climate changes and emissions. John McCain is stated to be the only Republican candidate who comes close to the Democrats with a plan for addressing climate change. Candidate Mike Huckabee is stated to have raised the idea of government regulations on emissions.

The article reports that the regulation of automobile emissions and fuel economy has raised concerns from the U.S. government. This is stated to lead to a presidential veto of the energy bill before the U.S. Congress. The regulation of mileage standards has fallen to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is an arm of the U.S. Transportation Department. The energy bill has been passed in the U.S. House, but is pending in the U.S. Senate.

The article offers information on the U.S. Northeastern states' plan to sue president George W. Bush's administration on the matter of greenhouse gas emissions. It states that various states including New York and California has come up with a program named Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which is said to be aimed at individual regulations for every state.

The article presents information about a bill passed by the New Jersey Legislature, for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, refineries, motor vehicles and other sources that lead to global warming. Concerns were expressed by business leaders regarding the bill's impact on energy costs and state's competitiveness. But this was hailed as pathbreaking by environmental advocates and state governor Jon S. Corzine was ready to sign it as law.

The article presents information about a $33.5 billion budget passed by the New Jersey Legislature nine days ahead of the schedule along with a confusion over the wrong version of a bill. There were several reasons for the approval of budget in addition to 200 other bills and completion of nine days before the constitutional deadline of June 30, 2007. Before it passed the Assembly and later the Senate, there was a mix-up over the carbon emissions measure.

The article reports on the steps being taken by Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, to promote clean-air plans in certain parts of the city like Bronx, Brooklyn, and Harlem. While addressing a conference, he talked of his plans to reduce the city's air pollution to reduce the high asthma rates. Bloomberg's plans included the proposal of charging a surcharge for vehicles entering congested sections of Manhattan, for which he has attracted both criticism and praise from the public.

The article focuses on the views of the authors regarding the Clean Air Mercury Rule introduced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2005 meant for reducing mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. According to the authors, the new rule is not effective in reducing emissions because some plants are allowed to pollute more as compared to others by buying pollution credits from other plants.

The article reports that Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. is planning to offer a cleaner-burning diesel engine for its Maxima sedan car in the U.S. to meet new emission rules and satisfy environmentally conscious consumers. According to Carlos Ghosn, chief executive of Nissan Motor, the company will follow stiffer environmental regulations to polish its image as a green company.

The article reports on the battle of Thailand against air pollution. In order to keep the dust down, the government of Thailand enacted measures like washing the streets. Buddhist crematoriums were urged to change from wood-burning pyres to electric incinerators. The result of the battle is that the average levels of small dust particles have been cut by 47 percent.

The article presents information on the effects of new federal clean air standards offered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the diesel engines of Cummins Inc. Cummins sued the government regulators over the use of federal standards in 2000. The article states how the federal standards helped the company to invest $250 million to revive an idled plant.

The article reflects on North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper's legal strategy to force out-of-state power plants from sending air pollution into the state.

The article comments on mandatory controls on carbon dioxide and other global warming gases in the U.S.

The article reports that evangelical groups in the U.S. are campaigning for laws that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions.