Tying a bow on four years of deregulation, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency finalized a transparency rule Tuesday that will exclude the anonymized data long instrumental in curbing pollution.
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Rejecting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s position that it has everything it needs to assess the risk posed by asbestos, a federal judge on Tuesday ordered the agency to start collecting more data on how much is made, imported and put into U.S. products.
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New York officials announced Friday they are leading a coalition of five states in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming the agency illegally weakened protections for farmers from pesticides.
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President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday picked North Carolina’s top environmental regulator to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, which became known for rolling back regulations under the Trump administration.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot claw back documents it disclosed by mistake revealing the names of oil lobbyists who planned a chummy “happy hour” outing with senior EPA officials, a federal judge has ruled.
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No longer counting tangential benefits in cost-benefits analyses for pollution controls, the Environmental Protection Agency adopted a rule change Wednesday expected to impede clean-air efforts.
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In the midst of a respiratory pandemic, the Trump administration is expected to announce Monday that it will not set tougher standards on the U.S.’s most widespread deadly air pollutant, soot.
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The Environmental Protection Agency proposed new restrictions Friday on a dangerous insecticide that it opted not to ban outright last year.
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Sparking criticism from environmentalists, the outgoing Trump administration said Wednesday it will not require power plants, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas producers to have insurance covering toxic waste cleanups.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday asked the 10th Circuit to restore its narrow definition of water protected by the Clean Water Act, struck down at Colorado’s request by a federal judge.
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Despite identifying major gaps in knowledge about asbestos in a recent draft risk report, the Trump administration on Thursday defended lax reporting rules that let companies avoid disclosing how much asbestos is made, imported and put into U.S. products.
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Coal ash, a top polluting waste in the United States second only to household trash, is flowing unchecked from power plants under President Donald Trump, nine conservation groups suing the Environmental Protection Agency claimed Monday.
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A coalition of green groups filed suit in the Ninth Circuit Friday, saying the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of a pesticide would harm the environment and human health.
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Accusing the government of shirking its mandatory gas-flare duties for the last 34 years, 10 environmental groups claim in a federal complaint that pollution has soared as a result.
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Just weeks after the president cast himself as a “great environmentalist” in a Florida rally, conservation groups condemned his administration Friday for undermining a court’s order to prevent water contamination with coal ash.
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Eleven environmental justice and rights groups joined forces Tuesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over what they call weak rules for chemical facilities that pump out pollutants linked to cancer.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency misapplied the law and its own regulations when it determined last year that vast salt ponds slated for redevelopment south of San Francisco are exempt from Clean Water Act protections, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreA federal judge denied the Natural Resources Defense Council’s motion to set a deadline for final action on remand in a challenge to a 2018 decision giving the EPA discretion over how to establish a new total maximum daily load for trash in the Anacostia River.
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Conservationists warned the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump applied a new regulatory scheme that lets states game requirements meant to reduce overall emissions of ozone-forming pollution.
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In a one-two punch Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency was hit with two federal complaints over its large-scale plan to protect the Chesapeake Bay, America’s largest estuary.
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