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Bills that could push up bills for Dominion Power customers in Virginia advance

Two bills pushed by Virginia's largest utility company that could cause customers' rates to increase moved forward Monday, passing unanimously out of the Senate Committee ...

The Insiders: Democrats would rather not have a State of the Union speech

Part of the theater associated with the State of the Union address lies in the camera capturing the live reactions of a few members of ...

Mayors Struggle To Craft Affordability Measure For EPA Water Framework

Mayors and other municipal officials are struggling to craft an alternative to the median household income (MHI) measure that EPA generally uses as part of ...

Battle Lines Forming for Climate War

Many of Washington's biggest and most powerful trade groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, and American Farm Bureau Federation, are ...

Senators Float Bills To Address Spills But Advocates Suggest EPA Actions

Key senators are pushing a series of measures that would provide EPA with new authority to address concerns highlighted by the recent chemical spills in ...

President Obama is not a lame duck

It's State of the Union time tomorrow, and the lack of progress on President Obama's second term legislative agenda has led many pundits to conclude ...

Unfazed by environmental challenges, coal industry mounts PR assault

Instead of pushing into the future, the embattledUScoal industry has reached into the past with a new public relations assault, emphasizing how its product powered ...

What's Uniting Conservatives, Pizza Hut, and Clean-Air Advocates?

An anti-ethanol coalition that spans conservatives, Pizza Hut franchises, and clean-air advocates is pressing House lawmakers to pare back the national biofuels mandate beyond what ...

ICF International Wins $6 Million Contract with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ICF International (NASDAQ:ICFI), a leading provider of consulting services and technology solutions to government and commercial clients, has been awarded a re-compete contract with the ...

Ethanol Sector Says New EIA Fuel Data Justify Increase In 2014 RFS Targets

Ethanol groups plan to use newly released government data on gasoline demand to urge EPA to reverse its proposed cuts to the 2014 renewable fuel ...