EPA blamed for delays in asbestos study in Montana
Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the ...
Tofu? ToWhit? Senators discuss EPA email aliases
To whom? ToWhit? Tofu? Senators sidetracked their confirmation hearing Thursday for Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to head the ...
Obama to speak to Organizing for Action summit
President Barack Obama plans to speak Wednesday night to donors and Democratic activists who are building support for a nonprofit group formed to ...

Legacy in mind, Obama aides form web of influence
Close aides and loyal allies who made President Barack Obama's re-election possible are attempting to do what's never been done before.

Energy Secretary Chu to step down
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down.

Obama to confront oil pipeline, climate change
President Barack Obama's second-term energy agenda is taking shape and, despite the departure of key Cabinet officials, it looks a lot like the first: ...

Interior chief Salazar stepping down in March
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversaw a moratorium on offshore drilling after the BP oil spill and promoted alternative energy sources ...

Obama deflects criticism about lack of diversity
Deflecting criticism about a perceived lack of diversity in his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans not to rush to ...

Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape
The composition of President Barack Obama's second term Cabinet became clearer Wednesday, with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigning and three other ...

EPA Administrator Jackson announces resignation
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Obama administration's chief environmental watchdog, is stepping down after nearly four years marked by ...

EPA tightens standards for soot pollution
In its first major regulation since the election, the Obama administration on Friday imposed a new air quality standard that reduces by 20 percent the ...
EPA adopts water pollution rules for Florida
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a combination of state and federal water pollution rules for Florida after a lengthy court fight ...