When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The Trump administration announced a blitz of pollution and climate regulation rollbacks at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that target, among other things, the agency’s ...

Congress has voted to undo a Clean Air Act regulation that strictly controls the amount of toxic air pollutants emitted by many industrial facilities like oil refineries, chemical plants, and steel ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...

Experts in the fight against plastic pollution are meeting this week to develop an international network of high-tech laboratories that can monitor marine microplastics, and examine other progress ...

The Trump administration has directed agencies to stop estimating the economic impact of climate change when developing policies and regulations. By Lisa Friedman The White House has ordered federal ...

The Trump administration says that it plans to delay and potentially loosen water pollution rules for coal-fired power plants. In a press release, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Monday ...

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of climate-change religion” and ...

Today, the Council adopted the regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets into the environment, following a provisional agreement with the European Parliament. The new regulation aims to ...