After encountering Democratic opposition, former Ohio official Donald Schregardus has decided to withdraw his name from consideration for one of the government's top environmental jobs.
The EPA has started working on a new environmental standard for the construction industry that could dictate erosion and sediment controls that contractors must include in storm water prevention programs for all job sites of more than 1 acre.
The Senate recently rejected an energy amendment that would have opened a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and natural gas exploration.
A bill that would ban the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether was recently approved by the Environment and Public Works Committee by bipartisan vote.
Congress is considering having the Interior Department contract with local law enforcement officials to tighten security around its 58 hydroelectric dams and 348 reservoirs.
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