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RMI and major oil and gas companies (BP, Equinor, Exxon, and Shell) condemn the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to end methane emissions monitoring, arguing that such monitoring is essential for the industry's viability and climate goals.

Friends of the Earth criticizes a two-year congressional budget deal for increasing the Pentagon budget by $160 billion while providing only $128 billion for social and environmental spending, and for including tax subsidies for fossil fuels and biomass.

A briefing by Energy Innovation detailing the potential climate impact of a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that vacated an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for regulating hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) through the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program.

H.R. 2401, titled the 'Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act of 2011', is a bill that proposes the creation of a presidential committee to analyze the cumulative and incremental economic and operational impacts of specific Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules and actions on energy and manufacturing in the United States.

A letter dated February 28, 2006, from several U.S. state Attorneys General to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce opposing specific provisions of HR 4591. The bill aims to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs Treaty), but the signees argue it contains overly broad preemption language and flawed EPA review procedures that would hinder state and federal environmental protections.

This fact sheet by the World Resources Institute explains the legal basis and potential mechanisms for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling and a 2009 EPA endangerment finding.