GOP senators try to stop EPA rule projected to save consumers millions of dollars
Environmental groups back a rule designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
By Oliver Willis - October 20, 2023Environmental groups back a rule designed to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
By Oliver Willis - October 20, 2023The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule could help prevent 600 million metric tons of pollution.
By Oliver Willis - June 13, 2023The EPA projects that carbon emissions would be reduced by 10 billion tons if the proposal is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - April 18, 2023Large oil companies took in over $22 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2022 as gas prices have soared.
By Oliver Willis - June 15, 2022The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2022Pollution cleanup in the Great Lakes is expected to accelerate dramatically, thanks to a $1 billion boost from Biden’s infrastructure plan.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2022It’s the latest reversal of a Trump-era policy.
By Associated Press - May 27, 2021Restoring public confidence in the EPA is a top goal, the agency’s administrator, Michael Regan, said.
By Associated Press - March 31, 2021An 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.’
By Associated Press - January 29, 2021The 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.
By Associated Press - January 05, 2021‘We won’t sit silently while the EPA allows this super pollutant to rapidly warm our atmosphere.’
By Associated Press - August 15, 2020The agency rejected warnings that the move could mean lower IQs for American newborns.
By Associated Press - June 20, 2020‘You have turned EPA into Every Polluters’ Ally,’ Sen. Ed Markey told EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2020Trump’s EPA is refusing to regulate a dangerous chemical tied to brain damage in infants.
By Emily Singer - May 15, 2020The Environmental Protection Agency’s fight against science continues even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 06, 2020Critics say Trump’s latest move to erase Obama’s legacy could lead to more illness and death.
By Associated Press - April 01, 2020The agency is concerned that nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water may pose a health risk.
By Associated Press - February 23, 2020Trump’s own scientific advisers object to the plan which they say is ‘in conflict with established science.’
By Emily Singer - January 15, 2020Under Trump, the US has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic clean-up projects in at least 15 years.
By Associated Press - January 05, 2020The number of criminal prosecutions against polluters are at the lowest level since George H.W. Bush’s presidency.
By Associated Press - November 22, 2019The Trump administration is rolling back an Obama-era meant to protect people from dangerous chemicals.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 21, 2019It’s the latest move by the Trump administration to give free rein to polluters.
By Associated Press - November 04, 2019Yet another top Trump administration official is out.
By Mike Stankiewicz - June 27, 2019Air quality has gone downhill in the last two years compared to the end of President Obama’s term.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 19, 2019Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is no longer doing its job, according to several people who led the EPA under other presidents.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 11, 2019EPA head Andrew Wheeler sounds just like Trump.
By Lisa Needham - June 06, 2019The Government Accountability Office ruled that Carson’s pricey dining room set violated the law.
By Emily Singer - May 17, 2019Under Trump, the EPA works for chemical companies, not people.
By Lisa Needham - May 02, 2019Newly appointed EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is sticking to Trump’s anti-science, pro-crackpot line on climate change.
By Oliver Willis - April 15, 2019A list of gifts received by disgraced former EPA chief Scott Pruitt while in office includes six copies of ‘The Lorax’ and three copies of ‘Global Warming for Dummies.’
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2019