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INSIDE THE MASS EXODUS AT THE EPA
More than 700 workers have left the rapidly shrinking Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office -- including more than 200 scientists, according to a report... READ MORE›
VENUE OF LAST RESORT: THE CLIMATE LAWSUITS THREATENING THE FUTURE OF BIG OIL
Two international accords tackling climate change have been brokered, with the United States conspicuously absent on both... READ MORE›
FUELING DISSENT: HOW THE OIL INDUSTRY SET OUT TO UNDERCUT CLEAN AIR
He gets a second dose at the end of the day before heading home from St John Bosco Elementary School, in San Antonio, Texas... READ MORE›
STATES SUE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOR FAILING TO ENFORCE SMOG RULES
Becerra was joined by the attorneys general in Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state... READ MORE›
FOURTEEN STATES SUE TO ALLEGE US FAILURE TO ENFORCE SMOG RULES
Becerra was joined by the attorneys general in Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington state... READ MORE›
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS SUE EPA FOR REVERSING OBAMA-ERA MOVE TO BAN PESTICIDE
After years of litigation, the EPA released an assessment of chlorpyrifos in November, concluding that current usage of the pesticide carries dietary and drinking water risks... READ MORE›
SCOTT PRUITT VOWS TO SLASH CLIMATE AND WATER POLLUTION REGULATIONS AT CPAC
Pruitt demurred when asked if the EPA should be abolished, citing the very important work it does in water and air pollution that crosses state lines... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP 'TAKING STEPS TO ABOLISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'
President Trump said during the campaign that he would like to abolish the EPA or 'leave a little bit'... READ MORE›
PESTICIDE THAT TRUMP'S EPA REFUSED TO BAN BLAMED FOR SICKENING FARM WORKERS
Nearly 50 farm workers experienced nausea and vomiting apparently caused by a pesticide whose scheduled ban was overturned by the Trump administration... READ MORE›
WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES SLASHING FUNDS TO CLEAN UP TOXIC SITES DESPITE EPA'S PLEAS
The EPA budget documents were obtained and released by the National Association of Clean Air Agencies... READ MORE›
TRUMP BUDGET WOULD GUT EPA PROGRAMS TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND POLLUTION
The EPA's office of research and development would suffer a budget cut of around half, to 250m... READ MORE›
EPA HIT HARDEST AS TRUMP BUDGET TARGETS REGULATIONS
Representatives of California, where state energy commissions and a clean air agency are hiring, handed recruitment fliers to EPA employees on their way to work... READ MORE›
THE HIDDEN RISKS OF TRUMP'S EPA CUTS
The White House's proposed budget would shrink the program from 7.5 million to 445,000, to be spent shutting down the work, according to the Environmental Protection Network's report... READ MORE›
EPA TOUTS SUCCESSES OF PROGRAMS TRUMP'S BUDGET AIMS TO KILL
Also winning recent public praise from the agency the Energy Star program for appliances and funding to clean up abandoned gasoline storage tanks... READ MORE›
SUPREME COURT TO BLOCK OBAMA'S SWEEPING CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN
America's use of coal for electricity fell to an all-time low last year, and about 5 percent of coal-fired power plants were shut down... READ MORE›
LOBBYIST DUBBED DR EVIL BEHIND FRONT GROUPS ATTACKING OBAMA POWER RULES
Beacon Hill received 41,500 from the Employment Policies Institute for a study of the EPA rules, according to the grants list maintained by Suffolk University... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMIN ORDERS EPA CONTRACT FREEZE AND MEDIA BLACKOUT
Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the Trump administration should immediately reverse the media blackout and contracting freeze... READ MORE›
OUTGOING EPA CHIEF REVEALS FEARS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL HALT CLIMATE ACTION
But McCarthy said even if the federal government reverses course on climate change, progress will still be made... READ MORE›
MILLIONS EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS LEAD LEVELS IN US DRINKING WATER, REPORT FINDS
New report says Flint water crisis is not an anomaly, as analysis reveals 5,363 water systems - providing drinking water to 18 million - breached federal laws... READ MORE›
TRUMPS PRO-COAL AGENDA IS A BLOW FOR CLEAN AIR EFFORTS AT TEXAS' BIG BEND PARK
In 2009, the state enforcer, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, issued a plan that would restore natural visibility to Big Bend by the year 2155... READ MORE›
OBAMA'S CLIMATE CHANGE LEGACY AT STAKE AS CLEAN POWER PLAN HAS ITS DAY IN COURT
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the states and the Obama administration presented oral arguments to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit... READ MORE›
US GOVERNMENT SAYS WIDELY USED PESTICIDE COULD HARM HONEYBEES
Jones said it was the EPA's assessment that honeybees would make a good surrogate for other species... READ MORE›
EPA LEADER TO DROP SCIENTISTS FROM ADVISORY BOARD
The decision to bar any researcher who receives EPA grant money from serving as an adviser to the agency appears to be unprecedented... READ MORE›
REPUBLICANS WARN WORLD THAT OBAMA U.N. PLAN COULD BE UNDONE
But Republican critics say the administration lacks the political and legal backing to commit the United States to an international agreement... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TIGHTENS RULES ON SMOG POLLUTION
But the EPA's McCarthy warned that 40 million Americans still lived in cities that do not meet the current smog standards of 75 ppb... READ MORE›
AMERICA'S WATER TESTING PROBLEMS MUST AND CAN BE FIXED, EXPERTS SAY
Some water utilities offer low-cost loans or may provide discounts, for those willing and able to take on the expensive job of replacing lead service lines... READ MORE›
EPA ADMINISTRATOR QUITS AMID FLINT WATER CRISIS
The Environmental Protection Agency director overseeing a region that includes Flint, Michigan, is stepping down after contaminated water in that city exposed residents to lead poisoning... READ MORE›
EPA'S FALL IN FLINT, AN ABERRATION OR PART OF A PATTERN?
But was EPA's dawdling in largely poor and black Flint an aberration or part of a pattern of lax oversight and enforcement?... READ MORE›
GARDEN-CARE GIANT TO DROP CHEMICALS LINKED TO BEE DECLINES
Another study published last year says neonics might hit wild bumblebees harder than domestically raised honeybees... READ MORE›
FLINT SULLIES EPA'S NAME, DESPITE EFFORTS OF INDIVIDUAL FEDS
EPA procrastinated in responding to Flint water crisis, despite efforts of a dedicated employee... READ MORE›
EPA CONTRACT FREEZE, MEDIA BLACKOUT LEAVE STATES CONFUSED
Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Darlene Superville in Washington, Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, and Dan Elliott in Denver contributed to this report... READ MORE›
WATER PROTECTION LAWS WON'T CHANGE UNTIL 2017 DESPITE FLINT CRISIS
The EPA has been reviewing the lead and copper rule, part of the Safe Drinking Water Act, since roughly 2010... READ MORE›
EPA FINDS CULPRIT IN SOME CASES
Recent scientific studies have pointed to problems and pesticide makers dispute those studies and this one from the EPA... READ MORE›
MOSTLY WITHOUT POWER AND CLEAN WATER, PUERTO RICO STRUGGLING WITH MASSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
Raw sewage is pouring into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. People without running water bathe and wash their... READ MORE›
COLORADO GOVERNOR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER GOLD MINE WASTEWATER SPILL
The creek's water quality has already been badly degraded from a long history of acid mine drainage in the area, agency officials said. Reuters... READ MORE›