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A CIVIL RIGHTS 'EMERGENCY': JUSTICE, CLEAN AIR AND WATER IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The roots of the environmental justice movement are diffuse, but a string of events in Houston, Texas, proved foundational... READ MORE›
EPA MOVES TO RESCIND OBAMA PLAN TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING
The Trump administration is moving to roll back the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's efforts to slow global warming, seeking to ease restrictions on... READ MORE›
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'JUST RACIST': EPA CUTS WILL HIT BLACK AND HISPANIC COMMUNITIES THE HARDEST
The environmental justice office is tasked with bridging the yawning disparity in pollution experienced by black, Hispanic and low-income communities and wealthier white neighborhoods... READ MORE›
EPA STUDIES, DATA MUST UNDERGO POLITICAL REVIEW BEFORE RELEASE
The EPA's 14-page scientific integrity document, enacted during the Obama administration, describes how scientific studies were to be conducted and reviewed in the agency... 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›
AT LEAST 33 US CITIES USED WATER TESTING 'CHEATS' OVER LEAD CONCERNS
Forty-three cities provided information, and 33 of these used distortions in their water testing in the past decade... READ MORE›
CONSERVATIVES CHEER EPA CUTS THAT ACTIVISTS FEAR 'WILL BE BORNE BY LUNGS'
Trump administration's zeal for deregulation seen by environmentalists as a recipe for fossil fuel cronyism, runaway climate change and toxic water crises... READ MORE›
TRUMP ISSUES GAG ORDER ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STAFF
The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants... READ MORE›
'SEE YOU IN COURT': ACTIVISTS READY FOR TRUMP TO RELAX SMOG AND DRILLING RULES
With the Trump administration poised to roll back rules on smog and drilling off Alaska and the east coast, environmental campaigners are ready for legal action... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO BEGIN REVERSING OBAMA-ERA CUTBACKS IN CARBON DIOXIDE
Still, utilities have already shed coal-fired electricity and added natural gas and renewable power, partly in a bid to satisfy the looming requirements... 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 HEAD SUGGESTS ROLLBACK OF OBAMA-ERA RULES MAY BEGIN NEXT WEEK
Obama-era regulations that dontA fit within that framework will be rolled back,A Pruitt added... READ MORE›
US PEOPLE OF COLOR STILL MORE LIKELY TO BE EXPOSED TO POLLUTION THAN WHITE PEOPLE
We have policies in place to reduce pollution in general but we don't have policies in place on environmental justice, said Marshall... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO NOMINATE PRUITT TO LEAD U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
The transition team statement called Pruitt "a national leader against the EPA's job-killing war on coal" who will help implement Trump's energy plan... READ MORE›
COURT TOSSES AN OBAMA-ERA CLIMATE RULE THAT TRUMP HAD DEFENDED
In this case, with U.S. chemical companies Honeywell International Inc... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S EPA BUDGET CUTS MAY UNLEASH A BACKLASH AS RISKS REMAIN
Even Trump's own advisers and the new EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, say the agency's state environmental grants are off limits... 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›
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IS NOT THE NATION'S JANITOR
These movements in turn bolstered support for an EPA program to address existing hazardous waste sites... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLANS RECONSIDERATION OF AUTO-EMISSION STANDARDS
Earlier Friday, a coalition of environmental groups including the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists issued a joint statement urging the vehicle standards be maintained... READ MORE›
KEYSTONE PIPELINE: OBAMA GIVEN BOOST FROM EPA REPORT REVISING CLIMATE IMPACT
Demonstrators hold signs against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House in Washington... READ MORE›
TRUMP ADMIN BANS EPA SCIENTISTS FROM RELEASING EVEN ROUTINE DATA WITHOUT REVIEW
The EPA's 14-page scientific integrity document, enacted during the Obama administration, describes how scientific studies were to be conducted and reviewed in the agency... READ MORE›
U.S. APPEALS COURT DECLINES TO BLOCK OBAMA CARBON EMISSIONS PLAN
The rule aims to lower carbon emissions from the country's power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels... READ MORE›
EPA SAYS TO TAKE TOUGHER STANCE ON AUTO EMISSIONS TESTS
We are upping our game Chris Grundler head of transportation and air quality at the Environmental Protection Agency told reporters in a teleconference... READ MORE›
EPA SCIENCE UNDER SCRUTINY BY TRUMP POLITICAL STAFF
He said he was speaking about existing scientific information on the EPA website that is under review by members of the Trump administration's transition team... READ MORE›
FRACKING: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE EPA IN CALL FOR STRICT RULES ON WASTE
Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico have also experienced a spike in earthquakes, because of high-volume wastewater injection wells... READ MORE›
TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO CUT 3,000 JOBS FROM EPA, ELIMINATE KEY PROGRAMS
The administration's 2018 budget blueprint will prioritize rebuilding the military and making critical investments in the nation's security... READ MORE›
VW FACING MASSIVE US RECALL OVER EMISSIONS TEST CHEATING
Affected diesel models include the 2009-15 Volkswagen Jetta, 2009-15 Beetle, 2009-15 Golf, 2014-15 Passat and 2009-15 Audi A3... 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›
AMERICANS SEND TWICE AS MUCH TRASH TO LANDFILLS THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
For years the Environmental Protection Agency relied on estimates to determine how much trash was being sent to landfills... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ISSUES NEW CURB ON OZONE, IRKING INDUSTRY, PARTIALLY PLACATING ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Business groups said a new ozone standard is unnecessary and could jeopardize jobs... READ MORE›
BIKERS, BOATERS AND BIG OIL UNITE IN FIGHT AGAINST BIOFUEL
Todd Becker, chief executive officer of ethanol producer Green Plains Renewable Energy, said the biofuel's opponents have fallen for Big Oil's public relations campaign... READ MORE›
AFTER WOMEN'S MARCH, SCIENTISTS, ACTIVISTS PLANNING MARCHES TO PROTEST AGAINST TRUMP AGENDA
Organizers are now planning a Scientists' March on Washington and a People's Climate March... READ MORE›