EPA wants states to decide whether residents receive pollution permit notices Data centers could face less public scrutiny under the proposed changes Minor pollution permits would no longer require ...

The move would overturn a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring power plants to control planet-warming pollution.

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some ...

EPA’s decision leaves tens of millions of Americans at risk; Will allow slaughterhouses and rendering facilities to remain leading industrial dischargers of nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, which ...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WV DEP) announced the first ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths. On ...

The Trump administration is repealing federal rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants. It says the changes will make electricity cheaper for Americans. What ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...

Former federal environmental officials are sounding an alarm in a new report about potential health impacts from data center pollution amidst what they see as a breakdown in oversight.

In a ruling hailed by environmentalists, a panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges found the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should not have declared the metro Detroit area as having met Clean Air ...

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