Virginia set to receive $156 million from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency program

Environmental groups back a rule designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule could help prevent 600 million metric tons of pollution.

The EPA projects that carbon emissions would be reduced by 10 billion tons if the proposal is enacted.

Large oil companies took in over $22 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2022 as gas prices have soared.

The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.

Pollution cleanup in the Great Lakes is expected to accelerate dramatically, thanks to a $1 billion boost from Biden’s infrastructure plan.

It’s the latest reversal of a Trump-era policy.

Restoring public confidence in the EPA is a top goal, the agency’s administrator, Michael Regan, said.

An EPA spokesman said Friday the agency is ‘committed to making evidence-based decisions and developing policies and programs that are guided by the best science.’

The EPA has been one of the most active agencies in carrying out Donald Trump’s mandate to roll back regulations that conservative groups have identified as burdensome to industry.

‘We won’t sit silently while the EPA allows this super pollutant to rapidly warm our atmosphere.’

The agency rejected warnings that the move could mean lower IQs for American newborns.

‘You have turned EPA into Every Polluters’ Ally,’ Sen. Ed Markey told EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.

Trump’s EPA is refusing to regulate a dangerous chemical tied to brain damage in infants.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s fight against science continues even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Critics say Trump’s latest move to erase Obama’s legacy could lead to more illness and death.

The agency is concerned that nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water may pose a health risk.

Trump’s own scientific advisers object to the plan which they say is ‘in conflict with established science.’

Under Trump, the US has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic clean-up projects in at least 15 years.

The number of criminal prosecutions against polluters are at the lowest level since George H.W. Bush’s presidency.

The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era meant to protect people from dangerous chemicals.

It’s the latest move by the Trump administration to give free rein to polluters.

Yet another top Trump administration official is out.

Air quality has gone downhill in the last two years compared to the end of President Obama’s term.

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is no longer doing its job, according to several people who led the EPA under other presidents.

EPA head Andrew Wheeler sounds just like Trump.

The Government Accountability Office ruled that Carson’s pricey dining room set violated the law.

Under Trump, the EPA works for chemical companies, not people.

Newly appointed EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is sticking to Trump’s anti-science, pro-crackpot line on climate change.