The Bush administration on Monday proposed a market-based system of pollution controls designed to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants by nearly 70% over the next 15 years.

The Obama administration has made very clear that they want Congress, rather than EPA, to take the lead in creating a national response to climate change. Despite their oft-repeated preference for ...

The Obama administration is moving forward with an optional cap-and-trade system that states could use to comply with its climate change rule for power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

An upcoming Environmental Protection Agency rule cutting greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants could spawn more regional cap-and-trade programs and greater electricity collaboration ...

The Obama administration is turning the tables on Republican foes of climate regulation, demonstrating not only that cap-and-trade works — it significantly reduced acid rain — but that the program was ...

Cap and Trade Through Executive Fiat With Congress unable to pass cap-and-trade legislation as the Administration hoped, the EPA is moving forward with its own set of climate change regulations.

The EPA says it is leaning toward stretching out plans for reducing mercury pollution from power plants by using marketplace mechanisms rather than requiring a technology fix. IE 11 is not supported.

Republican senators urged the Environmental Protection Agency not to participate in a “sue-and-settle” arrangement with ... require the agency to develop rules implementing cap-and-trade, ...

The latest argument being given by supporters of the cap-and-trade climate bill is that senators must act to prevent even worse action by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Daniel Whitten ...

Although Congress never managed to pass President Barack Obama's cap and trade plan, the Environmental Protection Agency's new regulations imposed on coal plants did the job for the president and ...

President Obama’s use of executive authority and his Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) interpretation of existing laws might have laid the groundwork for renewed cap-and-trade efforts ...

EPA Plan Encourages Innovation Environmental activist groups had favored a plan that would more immediately institute inflexible limits on each power plant. The U.S. Department of Energy, however, has ...