Ellen Knickmeyer, Author at Greenfield Recorder

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a press conference at the COP25 climate talks summit in Madrid, Monday.

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US feels heat as Trump pulls out of global climate pact

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressDecember 4, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is aiming to make the annual U.N.-sponsored climate talks underway in Madrid the last ones for full participation by the United States, which is the world’s No. 1 economy and the second-biggest carbon emitter.Trump…

FILE - In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. Oil industry and environmental groups say they expect the Environmental Protection Agency to release a proposed rule over the next few days that will roll back requirements on detecting and plugging methane leaks at oil and gas facilities (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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EPA moves to revoke rules on oil industry methane leaks

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and Cathy Bussewitz Associated PressAugust 29, 2019

A monarch butterfly perches on milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md.

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Monarchs caught up in rewrite of endangered species rule

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressAugust 13, 2019

A bald eagle takes flight at the Museum of the Shenandaoh Valley in Winchester, Va. While once-endangered bald eagles are booming again in the Chesapeake Bay, the overall trajectory of endangered species and the federal act that protects them isn’t so clearcut.

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US government weakens application of Endangered Species Act

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressAugust 12, 2019

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018 file photo, Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is shown at EPA headquarters in Washington. The Trump administration broke off talks with California on Thursday in the administration’s push to freeze vehicle mileage standards, moving the two closer to a possible court battle that threatens to unsettle the auto industry. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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White House ends Calif. talks on mileage dispute

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and Tom Krisher Associated PressFebruary 21, 2019

Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday.

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EPA too slow on limiting toxic chemicals, critics say

by John Flesher Associated Press, and Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressFebruary 14, 2019

Brian Weekly, a contractor at West Virginia’s Grant Town coal-fired power plant, gestures toward the small facility’s smokestack, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018 in Grant Town, W.Va. Weekly says opponents of the coal industry are behind warnings of health risks from smokestack emissions under the Trump administration’s plan. President Donald Trump picked West Virginia where he announced rolling back pollution rules for coal-fired power plants. But he didn’t mention that the northern two-thirds...

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Pollution rules rollback to hit coal country hard

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and John Raby Associated PressSeptember 3, 2018

The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo.

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US plan for coal power deregulation could cause more deaths

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressAugust 21, 2018

A car is filled with gasoline at a station in Windham, N.H. Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the U.S., the Trump administration declares in a major new policy statement that threatens to undermine decades of government campaigns for gas-thrifty cars.

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US says conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressAugust 19, 2018

FILE - In this May 16, 2018, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies on budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Trump tweeted Thursday, July 5, he accepted the resignation of Pruitt. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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Scandal-plagued EPA Administrator Pruitt resigns

by Michael Biesecker Associated Press, Zeke Miller Associated Press, and Ellen Knickmeyer Associated PressJuly 5, 2018