Earlier this year Republicans found what they saw as the the ideal talking point to illustrate a federal bureaucracy gone batty. The Environmental Protection Agency, they warned, was trying to regulate something only God could control: the dust in the wind. “Now, here comes my favorite of ...

College environmental activists met Thursday with Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson to tell her what they're doing at their schools to try to shut down campus coal-fired heating plants. "It's so important that your voices are heard, that campuses that are supposed to be teaching people aren't ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's largest electric utility is asking federal regulators to reconsider their decision to adopt a plan for trimming emissions at a coal-fired power plant that serves customers throughout the Southwest. (Excerpt) Read more at kwes.com ...

Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $ 23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $ 40 million in fines and is not kidding. That 's ...