In a win for utility groups who petitioned for changes to Obama-era coal ash pollution rules, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced on Thursday his agency is reviewing 11 safeguards on the often toxic material.
Read moreA Senate committee took a deep dive into the arcane-sounding subject of carbon sequestration on Wednesday, hoping testimony from a panel of authorities in the field will solidify bipartisan support for a proposed tax credit for the technology.
Read moreCourts play an increasingly significant role in determining how the United States addresses global warming, according to a new study that analyzes the impact of legal actions and judicial resolutions related to climate change.
Read moreA pair of government watchdogs told a House energy oversight panel on Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency is critically understaffed, compromising the agency’s ability to carry out its mission.
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The Trump administration cannot put off a plan to curb air pollution from Texas power plants until 2019, a federal judge ruled, refusing to further delay a process that’s dragged on for nearly a decade.
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A federal judge on Thursday dashed the hopes of states and local governments seeking to pile on more fines against Volkswagen for its emissions-cheating scandal.
Read moreDemocratic attorneys general want U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to rescind guidance sent to states that said should the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan take effect, compliance deadlines would be extended.
Read moreSix Democratic senators accused EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday of taking deliberate steps to keep them and the public in the dark about agency activities.
Read moreThe inspector general at the Environmental Protection Agency has opened an inquiry into Administrator Scott Pruitt’s frequent taxpayer-funded travel to his home in Oklahoma.
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Deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal investigation unit have accompanied a steep reduction in the number of new criminal cases filed against polluters and other violators of environmental laws according to a new report.
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As the federal government retreats from banning a pesticide increasingly connected to human health problems, particularly in children, the state of California took steps toward restricting its use in the Golden State.
Read moreNew York state on Thursday followed through on its promise to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its Administrator Scott Pruitt for allowing dredged sediments to be dumped into eastern Long Island Sound.
Read moreAccusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of withholding ethics documents regarding its chief Scott Pruitt, California’s attorney general on Friday sued the regulator for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request.
Read moreAfter blocking the Trump administration from pausing new methane-emissions regulations covering oil and natural gas wells, the D.C. Circuit refused Thursday to reconsider that July ruling.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency said it is moving forward with Obama-era smog regulations, after 15 states petitioned to challenge the Trump administration’s delay of rules reducing emissions of air pollutants.
Read moreAttorneys general from 15 states filed a legal challenge on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s delay of Obama-era rules reducing emissions of smog-causing air pollutants.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated part of an Environmental Protection Agency rule that set the levels of renewable fuel that must be blended into gasoline below targets called for by Congress.
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Two conservation groups claim in a federal lawsuit that the Environmental Protection Agency ignored their petition to block an operating permit for a Pennsylvania coal plant they say hurts people and the ecosystem.
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After suffering a significant setback in the courtroom, environmentalists dedicated to banning a pesticide linked to developmental impairment in children received good news Tuesday after a coalition of Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill aimed at banning the chemical.
Read moreNearly a dozen states sued the Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator Scott Pruitt on Monday for delaying safety regulations on chemical accidents, sparked by a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer storage plant in 2013.
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