The two projects, funded by the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will create an estimated 4,800 new jobs in Texas and Louisiana.

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

The order will create a White House Office for Environmental Justice and require several federal agencies to take steps to protect Americans from the effects of pollution.

Changing climate, invasive species and pollution are threatening the wild rice plant harvested as a sacred food by Ojibwe people in Minnesota.

In total, $3.5 billion will be allocated under the law to clean up Superfund sites across the country.

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could ‘eviscerate the EPA’s ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.’

The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.

‘We are really tying that back to this notion that environmental justice and equity will be center stage at EPA and this administration,’ said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

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.’

Environmental pollution disproportionately harms the poorest people in the world.

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’re going to see a real scorched-earth effort here at the tail end of the administration.’

‘Don’t silence our voices.’

The EPA is defending its decision to reverse regulations designed to reduce contamination, against its own advisers.