Biden’s LNG-Permit Halt Challenged by 16 States in Lawsuit March 22, 2024 By Elizabeth Elkin, Madlin Mekelburg and Ari Natter Texas, Louisiana and more than a dozen other US states challenged the Biden administration’s suspension of new licenses to export...
Biden Set to Halt Review of LNG Export Approvals on Friday January 26, 2024 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Biden administration intends to announce its strategy on Friday for beefing up environmental scrutiny of applications to export natural...
Biden Administration Reevaluates Climate Criteria for LNG Export Facilities, Potentially Stalling Pending Projects January 9, 2024 By Ruth Liao and Ari Natter The Biden administration is reevaluating the climate criteria it uses when approving new liquefied natural gas export facilities in a...
China Poses ‘Alarming’ Threat to US Power Grid, Lawmakers Told July 19, 2023 By Ari Natter China represents an increasing threat to the US power grid, lawmakers were told Tuesday during a hearing in which they...
Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny With New Limits Proposed February 2, 2023 By Ari Natter Gas stoves are coming under fresh scrutiny as a second federal agency has now stepped into the political firestorm with...
Safety Agency to Consider Ban on Gas Stoves Amid Health Fears January 10, 2023 By Ari Natter A federal agency says a ban on gas stoves is on the table amid rising concern about harmful indoor air...
Trump Regulatory Rollback Targets Safety Rules Prompted by Industrial Disasters November 25, 2019 By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Trump administration’s move to relax an Obama-era chemical safety regulation put in place after an explosion at a fertilizer...
Hog Waste Fears Raised Again as Dorian Hits North Carolina September 6, 2019 By Ari Natter Environmental groups are watching dozens of lagoons of swine waste stored directly in Hurricane Dorian’s path in North Carolina with...
Chemical Safety Board Again Targeted in Trump’s Proposed Budget March 11, 2019 By Ari Natter The Trump administration’s budget proposal will again call for eliminating the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent...
How 4,000 Federal Workers Are Being Deployed for Hurricane Florence September 14, 2018 By Ari Natter As Hurricane Florence churns toward the Carolinas, bearing a potentially lethal ocean surge and winds and torrential rains, the federal...