Environmental Defense Fund

Natural gas pipeline future in doubt after SCOTUS rejection

By JIM SALTERApril 18, 2022 GMT

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a St. Louis-based natural gas company's appeal of a lower court's decision that could close a pipeline that runs through parts of Illinois and Missouri.

Art Cooley, co-founder of Environmental Defense Fund, dies

February 4, 2022 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Art Cooley, a longtime activist who co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund more than 50 years ago, has died. Cooley, 87, helped launch the group, now one of the world's leading environmental organizations, from his living room on Long Island, New York, in 1967.

Emails: Pruitt monitored changes to EPA webpages on climate

By MICHAEL BIESECKERFebruary 2, 2018 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released emails show Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt personally monitored efforts last year to excise much of the information about climate change from the agency's website, especially President Obama's signature effort to reduce planet-warming carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants...