The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may soon adopt a method of assessment that ignores a majority of science showing air pollution harms human health, and experts are sounding the alarm ahead of a March 28 meeting to discuss the proposed change.
Read moreDownplaying the threat of climate change, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in an interview with CBS on Wednesday that the nation’s focus should be on a priority he believes is more pressing: potable water.
Read moreIn a case centered on a West Virginia wastewater treatment plant’s discharge of copper, the Fourth Circuit ruled that people can sue the Environmental Protection Agency for dragging its feet on a permit decision but cannot force a particular outcome.
Read moreTaking on a Obama-era regulation meant to stop global warming, the EPA joined chemical makers Friday in urging the D.C. Circuit to throw out strict limits on greenhouse gas-emitting hydrofluorocarbons.
Read moreThe Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, putting an official stamp on his leadership at the agency.
Read moreExposure to a common paint stripper has killed at least four people in the two years since the Environmental Protection Agency proposed banning methylene chloride for commercial and consumer uses. On Tuesday, two nonprofits brought a federal complaint in New York to compel follow-through.
Read moreTraces of asbestos were recently found in crayons and makeup, but the Environmental Protection Agency has no way to track how much of the toxic chemical gets made, imported or put into U.S. products, public health groups claim in a federal lawsuit.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court took up an appeal by Maui on Tuesday over the island’s history of discharging wastewater into the Pacific Ocean without a permit.
Read moreThe acting administrator of the EPA came under fire Thursday as he announced a long-demanded plan for national guidelines on a class of seemingly indestructible chemicals known as PFAs.
Read moreThe Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-10 along party lines Tuesday to approve former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreAn attorney for a West Virginia wastewater treatment plant argued before a Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday that it has standing to challenge federal regulators over how much copper can be put back into local waterways.
Read moreThe dying grass told Jason Peeler something was amiss with sections of his family’s ranch an hour south of San Antonio. He got answers last March, when federal rules forced the operator of a coal-fired power plant in the middle of the family’s land to release its pollution data.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency’s prosecution of polluters is at its lowest level in three decades, a watchdog group reports.
Read moreFacing tough questions from Senate Democrats during a confirmation hearing Wednesday, Andrew Wheeler, acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, conceded that climate change is a “huge issue” but said it is not “the greatest crisis.”
Read moreU.S. intervention on behalf of endangered or threatened marine mammals and sea turtles caused marked population surges in more than three-quarters of listed species, a study unveiled Wednesday shows.
Read moreThe Trump administration has targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation.
Read moreA federal judge ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to produce documents demanded by the Sierra Club regarding 25 employees appointed by President Donald Trump or former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who have a history of close ties with industries regulated by EPA, industry advocacy groups, or anti-environmental politicians or political groups — relationships that raise grave concerns about conflicts of interests and the ability of polluting industries to disproportionately influence EPA policy.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s lawsuit challenging a proposed sulfide mine along a river that forms the border between Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, finding the Environmental Protection Agency had a right to cede authority over wetlands permits to state agencies.
Read moreThe Trump administration unveiled a plan Tuesday to drain federal protections for wetlands and other isolated bodies of water, doing away with the Obama-era Clean Water Rule opposed by farmers.
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