Environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council lacks standing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s Covid-19 policy to not penalize businesses that fail to comply with pollution monitoring requirements because of the pandemic, a federal court in New York ruled.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no duty to review risks associated with major sources of industrial pollution on an ongoing basis — but it must update emissions-control technology for coke ovens and other sources of pollution every eight years, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Legal challenges continue to mount over the White House rolling back protections for America’s waterways, with the latest brought in the nation’s capital on Thursday.
Read moreThe Pascua Yaqui Tribe and five other tribes across the nation sued U.S. EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler and the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court for changing the Navigable Waters and Repeal rules of the Clean Water Act to the detriment of the tribes.
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Almost two dozen civil rights, public health and environmental watchdogs hauled the Trump administration to the D.C. Circuit on Friday to defend its rollback of toxic emissions regulations.
Read moreAttorneys for 18 states and 2 major cities were in federal court Thursday asking a judge to grant a preliminary injunction that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from removing protections from temporary streams, wetlands and other minor water bodies.
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A 2015 Environmental Protection Agency rule that expanded the definition of the waters of the United States was debated Thursday at the Sixth Circuit, as Ohio and Tennessee argued the since-repealed rule was unconstitutional and could still be put back into effect.
Read moreCiting the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that waives key environmental requirements for some mine, pipeline and highway construction projects.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit dealt a blow to chemical company Monsanto Wednesday when it vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the controversial pesticide dicamba, saying the agency failed to properly assess the risks of its widespread chemical use.
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A new rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency just made it a lot easier for the federal government to override the will of states and tribes who might object to the construction of oil and gas pipelines in their own backyards.
Read moreColorado sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court, claiming the EPA’s “proposed new definition of ‘waters of the United States’ conflicts with the text of the Clean Water Act, contravenes controlling Supreme Court precedent, contradicts the Act’s objective, and ignores sound science.”
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It’s hard to cool river water heated to temperatures that kill salmon. So the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggested Oregon and Washington state change the designated “uses” of the Columbia and Snake Rivers so they are no longer expressly for salmon.
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Defending the country’s abandonment of air pollution controls even as the globe is in the grip of a deadly respiratory virus, Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler pulled down a facemask emblazoned with a butterfly to testify Wednesday before members of the Senate.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — The D.C. Circuit chided the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday for not actually breaking down the costs
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A group of states and environmentalists said Monday they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency based on claims that a long-running plan to tackle pollution in Chesapeake Bay is not being enforced well enough to meet its 2025 goals.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has reportedly decided to drop regulation of a water contaminant that’s been linked to brain damage in infants, though agency officials deny a final decision has been made.
Read moreNew York, California and seven other states sued U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Commissioner Andrew Wheeler in federal court, claiming his broad nonenforcement policy issued on March 23 gives polluters free rein to violate environmental laws due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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While New York and New Jersey continue to battle Covid-19 as the states worst hit by the deadly outbreak, they appeared to gain ground at the D.C. Circuit on Thursday in a fight to regulate smog carried downwind from neighboring states.
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