Senators Grill Trump's Nominee to Head the Environmental Protection Agency
As acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler has worked to ease environmental regulation.
As acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler has worked to ease environmental regulation.
The NRDC hopes its new research into municipal pollution can help organizers push for sound, equitable policy.
The former coal lobbyist, who has been a champion of Trump's deregulatory agenda without any of the ethical scandals of his predecessor, is all but guaranteed a confirmation.
The Trump administration has been systematically rolling back environmental regulations, and now carbon emissions are up across every sector in America.
The proposal would endanger watersheds that sustain wildlife and supply drinking water for millions of Americans.
Will it be enough to save coal jobs?
Environmental Protection Agency enforcement fell to 10-year lows in 2017, but 2018's numbers may be even lower.
The law authorizes billions of dollars for state-level projects aimed at improving the nation's rivers, harbors, and drinking water.
The EPA sidelines science, the Harvard University bias case goes to trial, and the West Coast might get its first offshore wind auction.
The policy would have required that the data for all scientific studies used to justify major regulatory actions be publicly available.
Ethanol won't save us from oil dependence—or climate change.
The Trump administration is doing the opposite of what a new report says is needed to keep global climate change to a minimum.
Two of the three invited scientists agreed with the rule, even though other evidence suggests most scientists are against it.
A new rule might open the door for regulation rollbacks on radiation and harmful chemicals.
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.
The EPA takes another swipe at science, the Carolinas continue to feel the effects of Florence, and grizzlies get a reprieve in Yellowstone.
Researchers are worried that the EPA plans to reduce the Office of Children's Health Protection's influence, or shutter it altogether.
A glacier in Antarctica gets a new name and, once more, environmental regulations are under threat.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to weaken Obama-era rules about leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
The Environmental Protection Agency published on Tuesday a proposed rule to replace Obama-era proposed regulations on coal power plants.
A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on the Trump administration's order delaying the Clean Water Rule.
The new plan would require automakers to comply with the state's more stringent greenhouse gas emissions rules despite proposed rollbacks.
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.