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isa Jackson’s exit as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency leaves her successor to combat global warming and set rules for
hydraulic fracturing over the objections of businesses and Republican
lawmakers.
New Orleans native Lisa Jackson leaving EPA after pushing to
send BP fines to Gulf states
Washington — Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, said he has had some
“heated arguments” with outgoing EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson,
including sharp questioning at a House hearing in which he challenged her
view that reducing carbon emissions would increase jobs by producing
green technologies.
EPA chief Lisa Jackson resigns after tenure marked by friction
with GOP
The most prominent member of Barack Obama’s environmental team
announced she was stepping down on Thursday, after four years of
running battles with industry and Republicans in Congress opposed to
stricter pollution controls.
After Jackson, EPA faces big decisions on U.S. fracking boom
The past four years of U.S. environmental regulation was marked by a
crackdown on emissions that angered coal miners and power companies.
Over the next four, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency
will have to decide whether to take on an even larger industry: Big Oil.\
California Fracking Disclosure Rules Leave Some
Environmentalists Unsatisfied
Underneath much of Central and southern California sits the single
largest deposit of shale oil in the United States, boasting a motherlode of
some 15 billion barrels of oil.
While the Monterey Shale’s unique geology has prevented energy
companies from unleashing a new West Coast energy boom, California
regulators have begun to take the first steps in regulating hydraulic
fracturing (or “fracking”), a controversial practice decried by
environmentalists and the most promising solution for retrieving said oil.
Fracking opponents prep for comments fight