A lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action to reduce air pollution in the smoggy areas of 11 states where air quality has fallen below federal standards.
Read moreNew York and Connecticut sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court, claiming his failure to enforce the Clean Air Act allows five upwind states to pollute the plaintiff states’ air.
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House lawmakers passed a bill Friday for U.S. regulators to designate chemicals found in cooking spray, cosmetics and other grease-resistant products as health hazards.
Read moreThe number of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects accumulated under the Trump administration amount to the largest backlog in about 15 years, according to figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays.
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A coalition of state prosecutors filed suit Friday against the Trump administration, saying regulators ignored the science in rolling back protections for many U.S. waterways.
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Just a few weeks after a chemical plant explosion displaced 50,000 people in Texas the day before Thanksgiving, 13 environmental organizations are contesting the Trump administration’s recent effort to unravel chemical-disaster regulations.
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Hurricane Harvey cost more than $125 billion in damages and filled more than 80,000 homes with at least 18 inches of water. But monitoring efforts failed to fully assess the effect of hundreds of tons of hazardous air pollutants industrial facilities released during the natural disaster, a federal watchdog reported Monday.
Read moreCalifornia’s State Lands Commission and a handful of San Diego County cities announced Friday a coordinated resolution to recommend federal actions on cross-border pollution of the Tijuana River Valley, where raw sewage and pollution flow from Mexico into the Pacific Ocean during rainy season wastewater infrastructure breeches.
Read moreThe Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court, claiming he arbitrarily and capriciously approved Missouri’s water quality standards for agricultural runoff into lakes.
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Seeking stricter accountability for the plastics industry, more than 350 public interest groups filed a petition Tuesday with the Environmental Protect Agency demanding higher standards and lower emissions for plastics manufacturers.
Read moreTensions ran high at First Circuit arguments Tuesday where several judges raised their voices in frustration with the government’s attempts to defend an order that purged scores of academic and nonprofit scientists from the agency’s advisory committees.
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A federal judge on Friday advanced a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fails to track how much hazardous asbestos is made, imported and added to U.S. products.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency cannot ignore “legacy uses” of chemicals when evaluating their impact on public health, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday while upholding most new rules for reviewing toxic substances.
Read moreCongress showered bipartisan support Wednesday on the nominee tapped to serve as watchdog of the Environmental Protection Agency, still rehabilitating its image after the scandals of its former head, Scott Pruitt.
Read moreOur Children’s Earth Foundation sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court for failing to comply with his nondiscretionary duty to revise or update emission standards for seven sources of air pollution, under the Clean Air Act.
Read moreNew Jersey and Connecticut sued EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler in federal court for failing to comply with his mandatory duty to make findings of failure to submit state implementation plans that comply with the Good Neighbor provision of the Clean Air Act, to reduce out-of-state air pollution blowing into their airsheds.
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Prosecutions of environmental crimes dropped to historic lows under the Trump administration last fiscal year and one legal expert believes that could endanger public health.
Read moreUsing stern words in a ruling that otherwise sidelines the EPA’s challengers, the D.C. Circuit warned the Trump administration on Friday that it can’t distort established facts to weaken vehicle emission standards.
Read moreA federal court in Oregon recommended that the Environmental Protection Agency review its use of ZonaStat-H, a vaccine used as birth control for wild horses. The court found that its decision not to review the vaccine was “arbitrary and capricious.”
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