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Reports that after a decade of cautious circling, some scientists and policy makers are now trying to agree on how much global warming is too much. Meeting at Exeter, England, at the invitation of Prime Minister Tony Blair; Fresh findings which show that potentially enormous environmental changes lie ahead; Danger level set at 2.5 degrees of additional warming.

Reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sued Illinois-based exterminator company Clarke Environmental for improperly spraying mosquito pesticide in New York City. Allegation that the company failed to properly train its employees on how to apply pesticides against mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus and to provide them with adequate protective equipment.

Focuses on the Bush administration's plan to allow developers to complete construction and other projects even after belated discoveries that the work could endanger protected species.

Focuses on the environmental agenda of U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration and the Republican Party after Bush's re-election. Proposals to revamp laws on air pollution and endangered species; Energy bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration; Emphasis of the administration's environmental conservation efforts.

Focuses on the proposal by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation to eliminate a policy requiring state monitors at most hazardous waste sites. Potential benefit of the proposal to owners of the sites; Contention by environmental groups that the proposed change would weaken the policing of the state's worst polluters and jeopardize natural resources and the health of residents.

Reports on the suspension of plans by the Bureau of Land Management to allow natural gas exploration and development along the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana. Reasons for the suspension of the environmental study; Details about the project; Emphasis on the possible negative effects of noise, pollution and degradation in the area; Environmental considerations.

Reports on the United States Environmental Protection Agency's plan to reduce mercury pollution from power plants to protect children and pregnant women.

Comments on developments related to environmental protection in the U.S. Decision of U.S. President George W. Bush to open U.S. forest lands to development; Emphasis of the Bush administration on commercialization of natural resources; Call on environmentalist groups to encourage more people to have contact with the outdoors.

Reports that Engelhard Corp. has been fined and ordered to donate to a Hudson River environmental group after pleading guilty to two counts of solid-waste violations at a pigment manufacturing plant it owns in Peekskill, New York.

Reports on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's identification of counties that fail federal air standards. Discovery of microscopic soot from diesel-burning trucks, power plants and other sources; Results of preliminary analysis by the agency suggesting that several counties may have to take additional measures to curb pollution to meet the standards by 2010.

The article reports on the plan by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze antipollution and fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles. The proposed rules would weaken former President Barack Obama's policies aimed at preventing global warming, as well as challenge the right of states to set their own, more stringent pollution standards. The government claims the proposal would give consumers greater access to safer, more affordable vehicles while protecting the environment.

The article reports that the U.S. courts keep ruling that the U.S. President Donald Trump administration is violating federal law as the administration attempts to deregulate former U.S. President Barack Obama's environmental legacy. Topics include the court decision on the move by the U.S. Department of Interior to delay compliance with rules curbing flaring, how environmentalists see Trump's legal positions, and the public implications of the rules at the center of the legal challenges.

The article reports on the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. It highlights the president's plan to reverse the policies and regulations concerning climate change which is under the administration of former U.S. President Obama. Also emphasized is the fight of California for environmental protection and conservation being known as de facto negotiator with the environment worldwide.

The article looks at several environmental disasters in the U.S. that helped shift the public conversation and prompt lawmakers to take action. Among of such disasters are the Santa Barbara oil spill in 1969, the fire at the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio in 1969, and the Love Canal disaster in Niagara Falls, New York caused by the toxic waste dumped by Hooker Chemical Co. in the canal. It is noted those disasters set off the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Reports that a White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports to play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents. Role of Philip A. Cooney in removing or adjusting descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors had already approved; Examples of the dozens of revisions, which tend to produce an air of doubt about findings that most climate experts say are robust; Background on Cooney, who is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality; Method by which the documents were obtained by "The New York Times"; Response of White House officials to the changes made by Cooney; Views of climate experts and representatives of environmental groups; Influence of Cooney and other White House officials with ties to energy industries. INSET: An Editor in the White House.

Reports on a ruling by a federal appeals court that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney did not have to divulge details about how the White House's energy policies were shaped. Analysis of the decision, which touched on the constitutional separation of powers; Review of the White House's argument that it was not obligated to disclose whom it consulted on energy matters early in President George W. Bush's first term; Influence of the decision on pending energy legislation, which will allegedly combine environmental protection with energy efficiency.

Reports that New York City, in an effort to reduce harmful emissions while raising the fuel economy of its huge fleet of vehicles, is set to impose strict environmental standards on cars and vans it buys, and to require that diesel trucks and buses be modified. Outlook for the City Council to approve a wide-ranging package of environmental bills intended to reduce tailpipe emissions; How the additional costs of using clean fuel and modifying existing engines with filters will be offset by savings in fuel consumption and lower health care costs; Implications for the city; Other changes, including antipollution devices for school buses; The city's focus on cleaning up diesel engines that have been identified as major sources of pollution.

Examines in the effect of New York City's environmental protection legislation on the debate surrounding the potential construction of a new football stadium in the West Side of Manhattan. Author's view that environmental impact statements are often used by community groups and green advocates to delay development by holding construction companies and government officials accountable for environmental damages; Report that construction companies often use environmental impact statements against each other; Influence of the environmental issue and environmental impact statements on development projects in New York City.

The article reflects on the legislative changes of China's environmental protection law approved in April 2014 that would include stronger enforcement powers including the right to detain persistent violators and to fine polluters heavily than before.

Elisabeth Rosenthal is a reporter and blogger on environmental issues for The New York Times. IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president, Barack Obama and John McCain, warned about man-made global warming and supported legislation to curb emissions. After he was elected, President Obama promised ''a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change,'' and arrived cavalry-like at the 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen to broker a global pact. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal mandates under the 1970 Clean Air Act have produced cleaner cars, fuels and factories, significantly improving the air Americans breathe. Yet the underlying standards setting limits on ground-level ozone, the main component of harmful smog, have remained unchanged since 1997 -- even as science has made it abundantly clear that the standard is still not strong enough to protect public health. The Environmental Protection Agency has drawn up new and tighter rules, but the final decision rests with President Obama. The White House is under relentless pressure from industry and some legislators to keep the current rules. Mr. Obama should support the agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The League of Women Voters is typically thought of as an earnest, civic-minded organization best known for hosting sober candidate debates and distributing studious voter guides to keep the citizenry informed. But two senators facing elections discovered this month that the group had decided to take its informational role to an entirely new level. Senators Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, and Scott P. Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, found themselves on the receiving end of a hard-hitting, big-money television campaign taking them to task for votes to limit the regulatory power of the Environmental Protection Agency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday rejected efforts to block the Environmental Protection Agency's program to regulate greenhouse gases, defeating four bills that would have limited the agency's attempts to address global warming. The Senate voted as the House was debating a measure that would also halt the regulations by repealing the agency's scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are endangering human health and the environment. That bill is expected to pass the House on Thursday. President Obama has vowed to veto any such measure if it should reach his desk. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A dump at the center of a birth defects controversy in Central California has been fined more than $300,000 for allowing cancer-causing chemicals to leach into the soil, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Chemical Waste Management was assessed a $302,100 fine over its landfill near Kettleman City after failing to clean up soil tainted with spilled PCBs, placing workers at a higher risk of exposure, the agency said. Nearby residents fear that the landfill was linked to a high rate of birth abnormalities, but state officials said last week that they could not pinpoint a cause. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Recession, it turns out, is good for fuel economy. Gas mileage for 2009 model cars and trucks showed the largest increase since the oil crisis of nearly three decades ago, according to an annual report by the Environmental Protection Agency released on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1881, New York's special committee on Effluvium Nuisances reported that ''intolerable stenches'' were coming from the area known as Newtown Creek. On its banks were mills and offal rendering shops, oil refineries and fertilizer factories. Over the years, industry thrived in the area, leaving tons of toxic residues. The federal government is finally coming to the rescue. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced that the putrid 3.8-mile creek between Brooklyn and Queens is now an active Superfund site. The E.P.A.'s first tasks are to figure out what sort of cleanup would work best and begin identifying any of the polluting companies still in existence to pay their share of the tab. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- Citing new test data, the auto industry says the federal government's plan to raise the amount of ethanol mixed into gasoline will damage cars and increase the amount of pollution they emit. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue a rule in the next few weeks that would permit oil companies to increase the percentage of ethanol in automotive fuel to 15 percent, up from the current level of 10 percent, so they can meet E.P.A. quotas for renewable fuels. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would not require power plants or other industrial sites to obtain federal pollution permits for emitting greenhouse gases before next January. The statement formally affirms an agency announcement last month that it would phase in the regulation of climate-altering gases over several years, starting with the largest sources. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Christos Tsiamis, 59, grew up in the Greek port city of Patras and spent his summers swimming in the Ionian Sea. These days, Mr. Tsiamis's attention is consumed by a less alluring body of water: the Gowanus Canal, which this month was designated a Superfund site. Mr. Tsiamis, a 22-year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, is the project manager charged with determining just how contaminated the Gowanus is, and how best to clean it up. A chemical engineer with a master's degree from Columbia University, Mr. Tsiamis, who splits his time between Manhattan and Eastchester, N.Y., is also a poet who has published four books of poetry in his native tongue. Becoming an engineer: As a teen I used to vacation with an uncle of mine. He owned a dye production factory. In the mornings, I would go down to the factory and look at how they produced the dyes. I was greatly intrigued. It was the transformation of materials: You see materials that look one way, and then they are transformed. It is a miracle. By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to do chemical engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Andrew Pattison was looking to pursue a graduate degree in sustainability, he drew on his post-college experience working as a conservation biologist in upstate New York. Butterflies were his thing, and he produced numerous recommendations about what should be done to protect them. ''I found that quote-unquote important people who were decision makers would read the reports I filed and then not follow them,'' Mr. Pattison says. Those frustrations led him in a different direction. ''I knew I wanted to study the way decisions were made on environmental policy,'' he says. He also knew where many of the important decisions were made: in cities. With energy and climate policy, he says, ''the problem is global, but all politics are local.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it would probably increase the amount of ethanol that gasoline retailers could blend into ordinary fuel, to 15 percent, if tests established that the blend would not damage cars. The maximum ethanol blend is now 10 percent, except for cars specially equipped to handle higher blends. The agency said it was likely to approve the increase to 15 percent next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Alan Carlin, a 72-year-old analyst and economist, had labored in obscurity in a little-known office at the Environmental Protection Agency since the Nixon administration. In June, however, he became a sudden celebrity with the surfacing of a few e-mail messages that seemed to show that his contrarian views on global warming had been suppressed by his superiors because they were inconvenient to the Obama administration's climate change policy. Conservative commentators and Congressional Republicans said he had been muzzled because he did not toe the liberal line. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

''The new standards are aggressive and achievable, and ensure that consumers have a full range of vehicle choices.'' Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on proposed White House rules that would impose the first nationwide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Every two years, like clockwork, Congress seems to pass an energy bill, each one marginally better than the one before. What this country does not need in 2009 is another energy bill, even a better one. What it needs is a climate bill, one committed to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases in a way that engages the whole economy and forces major technological change. Without such a bill, America will lose the race against time on climate, lose the race for markets for new and cleaner energy systems, and forfeit any claim to world leadership in advance of the next round of global climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHILE President Obama's cap-and-trade proposal to reduce greenhouse gases has been the big topic of recent environmental debate, the White House has also been pushing a futuristic federal project to build a power plant that burns coal without any greenhouse gases. Sounds great, right? Except the idea is a rehash of a proposal that went bust the first time around. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WE are often told that tackling global warming should be the defining task of our age -- that we must cut emissions immediately and drastically. But people are not buying the idea that, unless we act, the planet is doomed. Several recent polls have revealed Americans' growing skepticism. Solving global warming has become their lowest policy priority, according to a new Pew survey. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Obama administration is seeking new limits on airborne pollution from cement plants, including the first standards for mercury from older kilns. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the rules would reduce the plants' mercury emissions at least 81 percent. The agency also predicts a 94 percent reduction in their emissions of hydrochloric acid, which would be regulated for the first time. The rules would also lead to steep cuts in hydrocarbons, soot and sulfur dioxide. Environmentalists have battled the E.P.A. in court for a decade, accusing it of failing to limit cement plant emissions as required by the Clean Air Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In his first weeks in office, President Obama has dismantled many environmental policies set by the Bush administration. But in some areas, he will be building on the work of his predecessor, rather than taking it apart. Mr. Bush was not known for his concern over the environment. In the eight years of his tenure, he opened vast tracts of public lands to drilling, mining and timbering, earning the enmity of many environmentalists. His critics accused him of easing restrictions on polluters, subverting science and dragging his feet on global warming. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For eight years, they were on the outside looking in -- usually hurling brickbats. Now, liberal groups that fought President George W. Bush on war, the environment and entitlement programs are in the unfamiliar position of supporting the man in the Oval Office. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The team President-elect Barack Obama introduced on Monday to carry out his energy and environmental policies faces a host of political, economic, diplomatic and scientific challenges that could impede his plans to address global warming and America's growing dependence on dirty and uncertain sources of energy. Acknowledging that a succession of presidents and Congresses had failed to make much progress on the issues, Mr. Obama vowed to press ahead despite the faltering economy and suggested that he would invest his political capital in trying to break logjams. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The League of Conservation Voters, starved for good news after eight years of the Bush administration's environmental policies, has hailed President-elect Barack Obama's choices for his top energy and environmental jobs as ''a Green Dream Team.'' Let's hope it is. There is no question what this team must do -- mount a strong offensive on climate change, fashion a more efficient energy system, seek out and invest in next-generation, transformative technologies. These are extraordinarily difficult tasks that will face resistance from industry and many in Congress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chosen for: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Would bring to the job: Twenty years of experience as an environmental regulator and a reputation as a consensus builder. Ms. Jackson, a chemical engineer, brought a more policy-driven approach as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, winning praise even from those who opposed her decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bush administration said Wednesday that it was abandoning its pursuit of two proposed regulations relaxing air-pollution standards for power plants, surprising both industry and environmentalists by ending its pursuit of one of the last remaining goals set out by Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force in 2001. The Environmental Protection Agency's public affairs office sent out a brief statement by e-mail announcing that it would not pursue the changes in how power-plant emissions are measured, which would have allowed increases of hundreds of thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, the building blocks of smog and fine-particulate pollution. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jeffrey Mikulina, a longtime environmental activist in Hawaii, jokes that his home state, which is almost completely dependent on imported oil, is one supertanker away from being Amish. It also is one superheated ocean away from being underwater. There, in a nutshell, is the motivation behind a new campaign to wean Hawaii from fossil fuels in 10 years. The project is Hawaii's own moon mission, led by the Blue Planet Foundation and not by the state's political establishment, which tends to prefer the slow and tortured way to change (a long battle over a new commuter rail system was bogged down by a ferocious debate over whether it should have steel or rubber wheels). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Announcing what it called new ''surf and turf'' standards, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday set stricter antipollution rules for engines that run pleasure boats, lawn mowers and weed trimmers. The agency said the rules would take effect in 2011 for lawn and garden equipment of 25 horsepower or less, and in 2010 for a wide range of inboard and outboard boat engines. Meeting the requirements will probably mean that catalytic converters, standard in modern cars, will become commonplace in lawn-equipment and boat engines. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency killed a federal plan to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi River Delta. It is the first time since 1990 that the E.P.A. has vetoed a project proposed by the Army Corp of Engineers. The $220 million proposal would have moved six million gallons of water a minute from 67,000 acres of wetlands along the Yazoo River. The agency said the project would cause unacceptable damage to fish, wildlife and waterfowl. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Clinton administration rule that banned the building of new roads on undeveloped tracts of federal forests was invalidated once again on Tuesday by a federal judge in Wyoming. Judge Clarence A. Brimmer of Federal District Court upheld a request by the State of Wyoming to issue a permanent injunction against the mandate, saying that it violated two national environmental laws and left forest managers unable to do their jobs properly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency signed off on the permit for the Desert Rock power plant on the Navajo Nation, saying the facility will set a new level of performance for coal-fired plants in the United States. The agency filed a consent decree in June, agreeing to act on the permit, which sets limits for emissions covered under the federal Clean Air Act, by the end of July as part of the settlement of a lawsuit that the developers of the $3 billion project filed against the agency. While environmentalists proclaimed it ''a sad day'' and prepared to appeal the decision, the Navajo president, Joe Shirley Jr., hailed the decision as much needed to improve conditions on the vast reservation across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The Dine Power Authority and Sithe Global Power of Houston are working together to build the 1,500-megawatt plant near Farmington in northwestern New Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it intended to ban the use of the pesticide carbofuran, citing its harmful effects on children and the environment. The agency said the risks associated with exposure to carbofuran in food and water exceed levels established by the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. In 1991, Congress banned the granular form of the pesticide, which was blamed for the deaths of more than a million birds. In humans, the pesticide can cause long-term damage to the body's neurological and reproductive systems. The chemical is used to combat pests that feed on rice, cotton, corn, soybean and sugar cane crops, particularly in China; the agency says it is not widely used in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: ''A Major Setback for Clean Air'' (editorial, July 16) implied that Duke Energy sought to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Interstate Rule. But, as we spelled out in legal filings, Duke Energy ''supports many aspects of CAIR.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]