The Ninth Circuit blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for failing to follow federal guidelines and ordered the agency to ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide known have detrimental health impacts to children.
Read moreFighting for the linchpin of its air quality laws, California introduced a plan Tuesday to require automakers to continue making highly efficient cars even if President Donald Trump slashes fuel economy standards.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Thursday formally proposed rolling back Obama-era vehicle emissions and fuel economy standards that were intended to nearly double passenger behicle’s fuel economy and halve their carbon emissions by 2025.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced that Cummins Inc. has agreed to recall about 500,000 medium- and heavy-duty trucks to correct a faulty emissions system problem that allows excessive emissions of nitrogen oxides.
Read moreAttorneys representing seven Alabama environmental groups asked the 11th Circuit on Friday to revoke the Alabama Department of Environmental Management’s authority to issue water discharge permits on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing a last-minute order by the agency’s former chief that allowed super-polluting diesel truck engines.
Read moreA federal judge Tuesday granted the Association of Irritated Residents partial summary judgment and gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a date certain to approve or reject the 2016 Plan for the 2008 8-hour Ozone Standard adopted by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District in June 2016 as required by the Clean Air Act.
Read moreTo stave off another lead crisis like that in Flint, Michigan, the Inspector General for the Environmental Protection Agency urged the agency to improve its oversight of state drinking water systems.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency assigns public-records requests from environmental groups or others that it sees as “politically charged” to special internal review, a top agency official told congressional investigators in one of several federal probes surrounding Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former administrator who resigned this month.
Read moreThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a federal judge Wednesday she can’t make the agency investigative racial bias claims more quickly, even though some complaints languish for decades without action.
Read moreReinstatement of pesticide rules that protect agricultural workers led three state attorneys general on Friday to drop their lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read moreEnvironmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday, ending a tenure dogged by unrelenting controversies overhis spending, ethics and management at the agency.
Read moreEnvironmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt is proposing surrendering some of his agency’s veto power over waste discharges near waterways by mining and development.
Read moreThe 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.
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