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West Virginia poultry farmer Lois Alt didn't chicken out when the Environmental Protection Agency threatened her with fines of $40,000 per day, and even though the federal regulators eventually backed off, she's taking them on in a legal case that could benefit thousands of small farmers.Alt, who owns the small Eight is Enough poultry farm in the town of Old Fields, was hit with the fines after EPA officials claimed high levels of nitrogen in her chickens' waste were fouling waterways. She fought back by filing a lawsuit of her own in federal court of the Northern District of West Virginia, and although the EPA dropped the fines, a judge has kept the case on the docket. Alt's lawyers argue the EPA is wrong to deny small operations like hers the Clean Water Act's statutory exemption for "agricultural stormwater," which big farms get and believe the massive agency has to change its rules - and use better science."[T]his Court's ultimate decision on the merits will benefit all parties, in...
A city on the north coast of Puerto Rico has agreed to spend $56 million to repair and upgrade water treatment facilities in an agreement with the U.S. Environmental...
Detroit says it will ruin your engine. The EPA says it's safe. Farmers say it's better than foreign oil. Oil companies say it's more expensive than gasoline. But as ...
Gov. Dave Heineman, (R-Neb.), on the economic impact of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting and the Keystone Pipeline.
The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental grou...
NEW YORK – On Wednesday, May 11, the Boston Bruins received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Merit Award for their efforts in food waste reco...
Whether they call it global warming, climate change or even global cooling, more and more Americans are taking a stand on one side or the other of this hotly debated...
President Obama, in each of his last three State of the Union addresses, spoke urgently of the need to cut through the "red tape" in Washington. But regulatory costs...
Energy companies are lining up for their shot to drill in the Dakotas and Montana after a new government report revealed that a massive geological formation stretchi...
A new federal report blames a combination of problems for a mysterious and dramatic disappearance of U.S. honeybees since 2006.The intertwined factors cited include ...
A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- ...
An Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman on Thursday denied that former EPA chief Lisa Jackson used a New Jersey government email account while she was heading...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it will deliver fresh water to four homes in a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential w...
Sen. John Thune speaks out
A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Mar...
Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty h...
The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republic...
It's as brazen a defiance of the law as Washington has seen, and the perpetrators are going to get away with it unless things change quickly.The Environmental Protec...
Senate Republicans boycotted Thursday a scheduled committee vote on President Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. All eight GOP members of the ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to change how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that would give it vastly expanded power to regulate ...
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