If industry-backed law passes, EPA couldn't use the science behind hundreds of environmental protections
The proposed law introduced would bar the federal Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments ...
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Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
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Duluth EPA lab’s future uncertain under plan to cut research arm
At virtual meetings Tuesday, employees were told to focus on wrapping up current projects and to download personnel files ...
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The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Two former EPA staffers on what the closure of the agency’s environmental justice offices means for the country and the ...
Fired Federal Environmental Staff Back on Payroll, but Not Back to Work
"They are getting paid to not do their jobs," a watchdog group said as fired staff at environmental agencies returned to ...
E.P.A. Investigations of Severe Pollution Look Increasingly at Risk
The agency will no longer shut down “any stage of energy production,” absent an imminent threat, a new memo says, and will ...
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New administrator named in EPA Region 8
Cyrus Western has been appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8 ...
Fired workers return to federal agencies — but are put on paid leave
As a result of recent court orders, federal employees are returning to their jobs — but are being put on paid leave. A ...
Getting paid not to work: Federal probationary workers are being reinstated but put on paid leave
I’m ready and raring to go. I don’t like to get paid not to do my work,” the USDA probationary worker told CNN. “The whole ...
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Former EPA Employees Warn of Polluted Skies Ahead Under Trump
Experts and former employees say the Trump administration’s moves to fire key scientists at the Environmental Protection ...
Trump's EPA Pivots to Powering Business at Risk to Environment
President Richard Nixon set a clear mission for the EPA when he created the agency in 1970: Establish and enforce standards ...
Opinion
Trump’s regulatory rollbacks are bad for the environment and the economy
Longer lifespans free from pollution and natural disasters do not stand in the way of progress, they are the definition of progress. Americans can still come together to work for a future that is ...