Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA sidelines science, the Harvard University bias case goes to trial, and the West Coast might get its first offshore wind auction.

• By Rebecca Worby

The policy would have required that the data for all scientific studies used to justify major regulatory actions be publicly available.

• By Rebecca Worby

Ethanol won't save us from oil dependence—or climate change.

• By Emma Sarappo

The Trump administration is doing the opposite of what a new report says is needed to keep global climate change to a minimum.

• By Emma Sarappo

Two of the three invited scientists agreed with the rule, even though other evidence suggests most scientists are against it.

• By Francie Diep

A new rule might open the door for regulation rollbacks on radiation and harmful chemicals.

• By Emma Sarappo

In a draft proposal rolling back Obama-era regulations on hydrofluorocarbons, the Trump administration scrapped all references to climate change and those most affected by it.

• By Emily Moon

The EPA takes another swipe at science, the Carolinas continue to feel the effects of Florence, and grizzlies get a reprieve in Yellowstone.

• By Rebecca Worby

Researchers are worried that the EPA plans to reduce the Office of Children's Health Protection's influence, or shutter it altogether.

• By Francie Diep

A glacier in Antarctica gets a new name and, once more, environmental regulations are under threat.

• By Rebecca Worby

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to weaken Obama-era rules about leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.

• By Francie Diep

The Environmental Protection Agency published on Tuesday a proposed rule to replace Obama-era proposed regulations on coal power plants.

• By Francie Diep

A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on the Trump administration's order delaying the Clean Water Rule.

• By Emily Moon

The new plan would require automakers to comply with the state's more stringent greenhouse gas emissions rules despite proposed rollbacks.

• By Emily Moon

A Michigan court refuses to recognize transgender women, the acting EPA chief goes before a congressional committee, and one of Trump's golf courses is ruining sand dunes.

• By Rebecca Worby

Some state legislators seem to agree that California's standards are what's in the United States' best interest.

• By Emily Moon

The plan would end efforts to make cars and trucks average more than 50 miles per gallon by 2025.

• By Emily Moon

Tests have revealed that water in Parchment, Michigan, contains 20 times the federal health advisory for dangerous substances known as PFAS.

• By Emily Moon

An Environmental Protection Agency watchdog calls out Scott Pruitt's failure to penalize three Oklahoma-based oil and gas companies for polluting.

• By Emily Moon

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an interview with Harvard University's Theda Skocpol on grassroots organizing to a feature on a person-centered approach to elderly care far above the Arctic Circle.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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This move will bring up questions about the waiver that currently allows California to set its own, stricter emissions standards.

• By Rebecca Worby

Big Sur becomes drivable, the EPA loosens coal ash rules, and Jane Goodall wants a hunting license she won't use.

• By Rebecca Worby

Proposed changes to the landmark legislation would limit protections for the thousands of endangered plants and animals covered under the law.

• By Emily Moon

The rule's architects aren't really seeking better science, opponents argue.

• By Francie Diep