The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday held that a lower court erred when it ruled the Environmental Protection Agency was not doing enough to ensure West Virginia fulfills its obligations to assess and report the toxic contamination of its waters.
Read moreA former Dow Chemical attorney tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical hazard oversight body told lawmakers Wednesday he has no opinion on administrator Scott Pruitt’s suspension of hazardous chemical regulations.
Read moreA trimmed down lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of 35 pesticide ingredients that allegedly harm endangered species will move forward, a federal judge ruled from the bench Friday.
Read moreA federal watchdog wants the Environmental Protection Agency to pick up the pace on its investigations into Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ballooning list of ethics violations before it can recommend “corrective action” to President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency backed off the temporary suspension of federal requirements aimed at protecting farm workers on Thursday, following a lawsuit filed by three states two weeks ago.
Read moreDespite evidence that high levels of sulfur dioxide pollution in cities could damage human health, U.S Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has failed to perform duties to ensure areas through the country have pollution curbing measures in place, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.
Read moreThe Waterkeeper Alliance claim in a federal complaint Wednesday that the Clean Water Rule of June 2015 denied protection to critical streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands, and a Delay Rule of February 2018 delayed protections for other bodies of water. It’s the 45th such lawsuit against EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt this calendar-year.
Read moreHawaii became the first state Wednesday to ban a dangerous pesticide that is said to cause disabilities and behavioral problems in children.
Read moreThe time for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to begin regulating downwind pollution drifting into Maryland from over 30 electric plants in the surrounding region has come, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe Sierra Club sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for denying its requests for schedules and records of communications between Administrator Scott Pruitt and leaders of polluting industries he regulates, in a federal FOIA complaint.
Read moreIdaho Power Company brought a federal complaint against Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, claiming he has no right to interfere in Idaho’s site-specific water temperature standards for salmon spawning in Idaho Power’s Hells Canyon complex.
Read moreEnvironmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s mounting ethics violations call for a criminal investigation led by the FBI and the Department of Justice, House Democrats said on Friday.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected a challenge a collection of energy industry groups brought to an EPA regulation that changed how the agency applies decisions from federal appeals courts.
Read moreEnvironmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt’s top legal counsel resigned Thursday, making her the second top officials to resign from the agency in the past two days.
Read moreA senior aide entangled in the multiple scandals dogging Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt abruptly resigned Wednesday, two days after she told lawmakers she once called a Trump Hotel on behalf of her boss, seeking use of a used mattress.
Read moreALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – In his first year at the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has exhibited
Read moreNewly filed reports show the Washington lobbyist whose wife rented a bargain-priced Capitol Hill condo to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt had far more contact with the agency than previously disclosed, despite repeated denials by both men.
Read moreA lawyer tapped to lead a task force at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing cleanups at the nation’s most polluted places worked until recently for a top chemical and plastics manufacturer with a troubled legacy of creating some of those toxic sites.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency faced a federal judge’s rebuke Friday for refusing to disclose records on which its chief relied when he said that human activity doesn’t drive climate change.
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