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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Environmentalism Gone Mad: How a Sierra Club Activist and Senior EPA Analyst Discovere

By Anthony Sadar

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, left, and Utah Gov. Gary Richard Herbert, center, listen as Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the National Governors Association convention Friday, July 11, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Montana’s Bullock: Both coal, wind needed in climate plan

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, speaks June 2, 2014, at agency headquarters in Washington during an announcement of a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030. In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan that cuts carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years, but pushes the deadline for some states to comply until long after President Obama leaves office. (Associated Press)

Dominion expresses concern over proposed EPA rules

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy holds up a pen before signing new emission guidelines during an announcement of a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030, Monday, June 2, 2014, at EPA headquarters in Washington. In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday that cuts carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years, but pushes the deadline for some states to comply until long after President Barack Obama leaves office. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

EPA unveils standards for reservation power plants

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In this Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 photo, Delmar Parris, of Port Orchard, Wash., casts his fishing line off Bay Street in Port Orchard during a fall sunset. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, Larry Steagall)

EPA orders Navy to fix problems at former dump

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The &quot;C&quot; tank farm is shown during a media tour of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Wednesday, July 9, 2014 near Richland, Wash. Officials said Wednesday that 12,000 air samples taken at Hanford this year after more than three dozen workers reported being sickened by chemical vapors have failed to find a cause for the problem. Journalists were only allowed to visit the normally bustling tank farm worksite during a lunch break when only two workers were present. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

EPA begins fining nuclear site over deadline

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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, center, listens as public magnet school students from MAST @ FIU Biscanye Bay Campus, Saad Masud, left, and Deanna Baumann explain how they are checking the salinity levels in water samples, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 in Miami Beach, Fla. McCarthy joined Democratic U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and Sheldon Whitehouse on Thursday in a South Beach neighborhood that in recent years frequently was flooded by seasonal high tides. The city expects to spend up to $400 million over five years to add about 60 new storm water pumps to improve drainage and reduce flooding. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

EPA chief says Lake Champlain cleanup critical

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This undated handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Michigan, shows The Four Corners area, in red, left, is the major US hot spot for methane emissions in this map showing how much emissions varied from average background concentrations from 2003-2009 (dark colors are lower than average; lighter colors are higher. Satellite data spotted a surprising hot spot of the potent heat-trapping gas methane over part of the American southwest. Those measurements hint that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considerably underestimates leaks of natural gas, also called methane. In a new look at methane from space, the four corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah jump out in glowing red with about 1.3 million pounds of methane a year. That’s about 80 percent more than the EPA figured and traps more heat than all the carbon dioxide produced yearly in Sweden. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Michigan)

Satellite sees hot spot of methane in US Southwest

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

The federal government could be the last, best hope to save the Navajo Generating Station. (Associated Press/File)

Groups challenge EPA decision on Navajo coal plant

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This undated image provided by NASA shows the ozone layer over the years, Sept. 17, 1979, top left, Oct. 7, 1989, top right, Oct. 9, 2006, lower left, and Oct. 1, 2010, lower right. Earth protective but fragile ozone layer is finally starting to rebound, says a United Nations panel of scientists. Scientists hail this as rare environmental good news, demonstrating that when the world comes together it can stop a brewing ecological crisis. (AP Photo/NASA)

Baton Rouge council to take up ozone standards

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FILE - In this July 13, 2007 file photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would essentially block development of a massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of a world-premier salmon fishery in Alaska. The Friday July 18, 2014 announcement comes as the EPA is being sued by the group behind the proposed Pebble Mine, the Pebble Limited Partnership, and the state of Alaska for exceeding its authority. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

EPA extends decision-making on mining proposal

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FILE - In this April 15, 2014 file photo, an oil-tank train with crude oil from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota travels near Staples, Minn. The University of Minnesota releases a new study on financial losses for farmers due to rail delays in shipping agriculture commodities, blaming the vast quantities of oil leaving North Dakota for squeezing out other rail traffic. (AP Photo/Mike Cronin,File)

Groups plan suit over Northwest oil-response plan

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy makes remarks during a news conference Wednesday, May 21, 2014, in Salt Lake City. The head of the EPA was in Salt Lake City Tuesday to talk about the agency's efforts to reduce carbon pollution. The Utah appearance by EPA administrator McCarthy is her first stop in a three-city tour that also includes Seattle and Portland. She is meeting with politicians, local leaders and business people as the EPA tries to implement President Barack Obama's climate-change plan. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

EPA OKs FutureGen plan for CO2 storage

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EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy delivers a keynote speech during the annual Western Governors' Association Meeting, at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency promoted currently proposed clean power plant rules to Western governors Tuesday, framing the plan as a way to deal with destructive wildfires and floods that have ravaged the region in recent years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Feds critical of California twin tunnel project

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Gina McCarthy, Environmental Protection Agency administrator, speaks June 2, 2014, at agency headquarters in Washington during an announcement of a plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030. In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan that cuts carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years, but pushes the deadline for some states to comply until long after President Obama leaves office. (Associated Press)

EPA environmental grant awarded to Chickasaws

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FILE - In this July 13, 2007 file photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing restrictions that would essentially block development of a massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of a world-premier salmon fishery in Alaska. The Friday July 18, 2014 announcement comes as the EPA is being sued by the group behind the proposed Pebble Mine, the Pebble Limited Partnership, and the state of Alaska for exceeding its authority. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Hundreds attend hearing on Alaska mine proposal

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Illustration on the importance of coal generated electricity to American life by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ORR: When emergency strikes, the EPA is a wrong number

By Isaac Orr

EPA approves Maricopa County dust plan

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Expected carbon limits cause concern in Wyoming

By BENJAMIN STORROW - Associated Press

State seeks to intervene in EPA case

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