The Center for Biological Diversity says EPA has ignored a Freedom of Information Act request asking for names of companies that have sought exemptions to Clean Air Act regulations.
Scrutiny of how companies plan to meet climate commitments is growing, with many successful legal challenges Judges across the world are proving sceptical of companies’ attempts to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by buying carbon credits, a report has found. In an analysis of nearly 3,000 climate-related lawsuits filed around the world since 2015, the latest annual review of climate litigation by the London School of Economics found action against corporations in particular was “evolving”, with growing scrutiny of how companies plan to meet their stated climate commitments. Continue reading...
EPA revealed details on its approach to the Biden-era rule establishing authority to put polluters on the hook for "forever chemicals" remediation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 12, 28 June 2025.
California's drive for electric vehicles faces challenge in Congress, the White House and Supreme Court
A Republican lawmaker is facing backlash after urging users to "reject Marx" as he proposes privatization of some public lands as part of the GOP spending bill.
[FrontPageAfrica] Yekepa, Nimba County -- An environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) and two official permits issued by Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have debunked recent claims by Senator Nya Twayen that ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) constructed its multi-million-dollar iron ore concentrator in Toledeh, Nimba County without proper environmental clearance.
Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land. The post Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands appeared first on High Country News.
President Trump signed legislation that would overturn California's ambitious auto emission standards
“It would be a dishonest argument for anyone in America — to me — to say that the air is going to get dirtier because of this,” said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decades US power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating gases under new regulatory rollbacks proposed by Donald Trump’s administration , experts warned. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would repeal a landmark climate rule that aims to mostly eliminate greenhouse gases from power plants by the 2030s and would, separately, weaken another regulation that restricts power plants’ release of hazardous air pollutants such as mercury. Continue reading...
EPA argues that the second-largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution contributes too little to the world’s climate problem to be worth regulating.
[Liberian Observer] Ivanhoe Atlantic Inc. has announced a significant milestone in the development of its Kon Kweni Iron Ore Project, with the Republic of Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approving the Scoping Report and Terms of Reference (TOR) for the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the project's proposed infrastructure in Liberia.
by Sharon Lerner and Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a legal complaint filed last year against the GEO Group, a major donor to President Donald Trump that has more than $1 billion in contracts with the administration to run private prisons and ICE detention facilities. The administrative complaint, which the EPA filed last June under the Biden administration, involved the GEO Group’s use of a disinfectant...
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The Trump administration has taken an ostrich-like approach to climate change. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is required to publish a report about the country’s sources of climate-changing pollution each year by April 15. This year, that didn’t happen. But the completed report was recently made public as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Environmental Defense Fund. This latest U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report provides granular detail on U.S. emissions in 2023. It’s unclear why the administration withheld this report, which had been completed, and thus its suppression offered no budgetary benefit. But suppressing the report lines up with the Trump...
EPA Region 9 Administrator Josh F.W. Cook aired concerns that the company is leaving the state, rather than upgrading its refineries.
Employees in EPA’s New York regional office were advised “to not interfere” with increased law enforcement activities.
The former EPA enforcement adviser joins Crowell & Moring's environment and energy group.
There would be no greenhouse gas caps on coal and gas-fired power plants.
The EPA is an agency in the U.S. government tasked with helping to clean up the environment. Early on, cars became a primary concern. Here's what happened.
The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a plan to end federal limits on greenhouse gases generated from coal- and gas-fired power plants.
The EPA administrator hinted that he may try to undercut the 2009 scientific finding by arguing that each greenhouse gas should be considered individually.
Senate Democrats gave the EPA administrator an earful over Trump administration efforts to cancel spending.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia has launched a major enforcement operation to address illegal construction in the Johnsonville and Jacob Town communities.
Leaders have decided to defy the parliamentarian to kill car emissions rules.
by Mark Olalde ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Days after President Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, the acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency sent an email to the entire workforce with details about the agency’s plans to close diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and included a plea for help. “Employees are requested to please notify” the EPA or the Office of Personnel Management, the federal government’s human resources agency...
Last year, the Biden administration set limits on PFAS in drinking water systems. Donald Trump’s EPA is planning to dramatically soften that rule.
The EPA said Wednesday it plans to weaken and reconsider federal guidelines on toxic "forever chemicals" in America's drinking water, citing compliance reasons.
[GroundUp] Just Share's report shows failure to lower greenhouse gas emissions by big polluters
"EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it," Zeldin declared.
The soft, waxy "solid refrigerant" being investigated in a UK laboratory may not look very exciting, but its unusual properties promise an air-conditioning revolution that could eliminate the need for greenhouse gases.
EPA froze bank accounts in February that held the balances of eight grants under its flagship green lending program.
The draft, the third advanced by EPA under the new administration, sets new mandates. The first two aimed to repeal existing regulations.
Senate Democrats say documents suggest EPA will ax the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized rules for the rubber tire industry, specifically previously unregulated rubber processing, last November through amendments to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
Advocacy groups say gutting EPA’s scientific research arm would turn it into a purely political agency Americans’ health is being put at risk after new cuts were announced by Donald Trump ’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce staffing to 1980s levels and gut its scientific research arm, experts and advocacy groups warned. The EPA’s administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced on Friday that the agency would slash its budget by $300m in the fiscal year 2026 as part of a broad overhaul that he said was designed to cut it to levels resembling those in the Reagan administration. Continue reading...
A study warns that youth sports may become unsafe due to heat unless greenhouse gases are reduced. Japan has seen 100 heat-related child deaths in the past 20 years.
EPA announced plans to reorganize the agency, moving science-focused staff into different roles and reducing the overall number of employees.
[Liberian Observer] For the first time in Liberia's history, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended its presence far beyond the capital, reaching some of the country's most remote and underserved regions.
Dennis “Lee” Forsgren has worked as an industry attorney, Hill staffer, lobbyist and EPA water official during President Trump's first term.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin visited the polluted Tijuana River on the U.S.-Mexico border, calling for a '100% solution' to clean up raw sewage that has fouled the waterway for years.
Amy Van Blarcom-Lackey, a dairy farmer and former banking executive, will lead EPA Region 3.
[Liberian Investigator] New York -- The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, is leading a five-member delegation to the first session of the United Nations Preparatory Commission on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement).
The rule sought to elevate conservation’s status as a valid public land use, but Trump’s Interior Secretary stressed the importance of balancing development alongside protection. The post Trump to rescind the Public Lands Rule appeared first on High Country News.
Modeling suggests it will only reduce emissions up to 10 percent by 2030.
Critics warn that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer public lands could enrich wealthy developers while eliminating access for everyone else.
Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist, leads a coalition that’s quietly organizing a county-level rejection of the Antiquities Act. The post The crusade to end federal public lands in New Mexico appeared first on High Country News.
Washington’s green spending binge has failed, and a market-driven reset is long overdue.
British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the province will have to "make choices" on programs within its CleanBC initiative given the repeal of the consumer carbon tax.
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia has leveled hefty fines, issued operational threats, and announced demolition orders against companies and individuals flouting the nation's environmental laws--signaling a new era of environmental accountability.
Prices at gas pumps across Canada have fallen significantly since the carbon tax was removed, but there is more to the story and it may be more bad news than good.
Health secretary makes announcement as EPA reviews ‘new scientific information’ into potential health risks Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy also said he’s assembling a taskforce to focus on the issue. Also on Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was reviewing “new scientific information” on potential health risks of fluoride in drinking water. The EPA has primary authority to set the maximum level of fluoridation in public water systems. Continue reading...
The EPA administrator's attacks on his agency's spending and regulations have made him a rising star in the Trump Cabinet but left some former colleagues mystified.
Saskatchewan, the second province to revoke a carbon tax, wants to "ensure that our industries ... are more competitive," its premier says.
The push is playing out as EPA also dangles the prospect of two-year exemptions from an array of recently strengthened air toxics rules.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US […]
"The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate," an EPA official said.
Head of Riverkeeper, which helped clean up Hudson River, talks about challenges during the second Trump term Donald Trump ’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River. Once a byword for environmental degradation, the Hudson River is now recovering, in part due to the work of Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization that established a model of legal activism for water protection and inspired more than 300 programs globally. It is also where Robert F Kennedy Jr cut his teeth as an environmental lawyer, before becoming a senior member of Trump’s rightwing...
Donald Trump's EPA says coal plants and other industrial polluters can ask to bypass provisions of the Clean Air Act by sending the agency an email.
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing entities subject to the Clean Air Act to seek exemptions via email through Monday while the agency reconsiders relevant rules.
Freighters emit more greenhouse gases than jets, but a tech startup believes a simple and effective technique can help the industry change course An industrial park alongside the River Lea in the London suburb of Chingford might not be the most obvious place for a quiet revolution to be taking place. But there, a team of entrepreneurs is tinkering with a modest looking steel container that could hold a solution to one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Inside it are thousands of cherry-sized pellets made from quicklime. At one end, a diesel generator pipes fumes through the lime, which soaks up the carbon, triggering a chemical reaction that transforms it into limestone. Continue reading...
A proposal to sell off up to 3 million acres of public lands across the West is in limbo after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it out of the reconciliation bill.
"It will leave communities more vulnerable."
Geoengineering comes in many forms and the risks and potential benefits vary widely. But many researchers now feel it’s time to investigate this controversial idea
An EPA analysis found the proposed relaxation of air toxics rules may require states "to pursue emissions reductions from other sources."
It's possible for you to make your LLM use "greener," according to new research.
EPA cannot "thumb its nose at Congress" by refusing to spend appropriated funds, the judge wrote.
Richard Tice says voters will turn on government unless energy bills fall A useful enemy? Why Tories and Reform are calling net zero policy into question Labour will back down on its policies aimed at achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions, the deputy leader of the Reform has predicted. Richard Tice, the energy spokesperson for Reform and MP for Boston and Skegness, told the Guardian his party would withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement that tries to limit global heating to 1.5C. Continue reading...
Proposals this week to weaken EPA restrictions will help tiny group of owners while ‘the American people will breathe dirtier air’ Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed on Wednesday that its plan to eviscerate power plant pollution standards will save the US around $1bn a year. In reality, though, this represents a starkly uneven trade-off, experts say. The savings for “Americans” will go entirely to power plant operators who won’t have to cut their pollution, while at the same time climate and health benefits for all Americans that are 20 times larger in dollar terms will be deleted. Continue reading...
The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride.
The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide.
A state law that mandated diversion of organic waste from landfills is being blamed for exacerbating illegal dumping in remote desert areas.
No Democrat supported David Fotouhi for EPA deputy administrator.
Air quality can be impacted by smoke from wildfires. Our reporter set out to build an air filter — in a style the EPA praised, using only things she already had at home.
A climate report acquired by a Freedom of Information Act request shows that U.S. climate pollution declined in 2023. The post The Trump EPA tried to bury some good news appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
In some parts of the U.S., air quality reached "unhealthy" levels Sunday in North Dakota and small swaths of Montana, Minnesota and South Dakota, according to EPA.
The administration estimates it can save $900 million if states take over some NPS sites.
A modified wastewater discharge permit will require owner Ocean Era to monitor and control nutrient wastes from an aquaculture operation for red drum.
The EPA argued in its proposal that eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare.
In between Trump administrations, multiple EPA officials represented the chemical industry, often as lobbyists, opposing EPA regulations.
A raging debate at EPA and in Congress could draw hard lines aound who's liable for PFAS cleanups and who's a “passive receiver" of the contaminants.
The deal marks one of the earliest under the Paris Agreement to trade a carbon credit known as ITMOs — internationally transferred mitigation outcomes.
At issue are strengthened limits for iron and steel mills, which spew emissions that include lead, hydrogen chloride and hydrogen sulfide.
Interested parties say water resources, tribal sovereignty and public engagement are threatened by the budget reconciliation bill’s amendment. The post Public lands for housing in Nevada and Utah called ‘giveaway’ appeared first on High Country News.
The Yukon government heard a few priorities during public consultations about the territory's new Public Lands Act: Developing more land for housing; supporting more First Nations involvement; and defending the public's access to public lands.
EPA previously held a state-specific "water policy" event with West Virginia officials, which focused on carbon injection wells.
Ontario's electricity is now being produced with the highest percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power since coal plants were operating in the province.
The Environmental Protection Agency will rescind and reconsider drinking water standards for four chemicals that have been linked to a range of illnesses.
Reorganizations at the EPA may get rid of the agency’s fundamental program for research around the risks of toxic chemicals.
The Rhode Island project to create local jobs, launch compost hubs, and reduce emissions was years in the making.
The directors, who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, said Trump administration policies jeopardize national parks.
[Liberian Observer] The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA) has fined Lonestar Cell MTN, a hefty US$15,000.00 for the telecommunication giant's failure to address environmental safety requirements.
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia in collaboration with Liberia National Police has embarked on a comprehensive Nationwide Environmental Compliance Monitoring and County Tour, running from May 3 to May 15, 2025.
EPA told the court that the grant terminations were done on an individual basis and were not a blanket freeze.
“I think the general message was, apply to these jobs if you want to continue to be employed by EPA,” said one employee in the research office.
The U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency is consolidating staff and shifting resources, part of a larger restructuring effort that will seek to "bring much needed efficiencies," officials announced.
[Liberian Observer] The government, through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ActionAid Liberia (AAL) and other key stakeholders, has successfully concluded a three-day National Dialogue focused on integrating youth, gender, and child-centered priorities into Liberia's updated climate commitments (Nationally Determined Contributions 3.0).
Researchers will move to EPA program offices instead of a centralized office, and the shake-up will bolster the chemicals review program.
£50 million is set aside for geoengineering projects announced soon.
Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial UK scientists are to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments as part of a £50m government-funded programme. The experiments will be small-scale and rigorously assessed, according to Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the UK government agency backing the plan , and will provide “critical” data needed to assess the potential of the technology. The programme, along with another £11m project, will make the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world. Continue reading...
The Liberal platform includes a pledge to introduce legislation to remove the consumer carbon tax while also planning to re-tool the industrial carbon price.
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- Armed with heavy equipment and the full backing of presidential authority, the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia on Wednesday spearheaded a sweeping demolition campaign to reclaim the Boulevard Wetlands, targeting scores of illegal structures that had sprung up across the protected area.
“Americans love their public lands. People want greater protection of existing lands," said the Trust for Public Land's Carrie Besnette Hauser.
The agency is probing whether a startup is adversely impacting air quality.
Anne Vogel was formerly director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, where she led the state’s East Palestine train derailment cleanup efforts.
by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country, including oil refineries, power plants and coal mines as well as those that make petrochemicals, cement, glass, iron...
The factory is an important factor in the toymaker's quest to stop emitting greenhouse gases by 2050.
Satellite highways may break down due to greenhouse gases in the uppermost layers of the atmosphere.
Carbon taxes, military bases, fighting against tariffs – these are some of the big-ticket policy announcements heard from the major parties so far in this federal election campaign. But in Nunavik, many residents say they just want action to address the basics, like food insecurity, mental health and addictions treatment.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services have announced they are launching a review of potential health risks associated with fluoride in drinking water.
The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953 has been mentioned as a possible model for how to end the fighting in Ukraine. This makes sense. The Trump administration, however, seems to opt for a quick deal like the 1973 Paris agreement on Vietnam or the Minsk agreements of 2014–15, combining “ceasefires […]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 7, 16 April 2025.
Calgary drivers were happy to see a drop in fuel prices on Tuesday - as the end of the federal Consumer Carbon Tax took effect.
[Liberian Observer] The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), in collaboration with the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) and other key stakeholders, has launched a composting site at Jorkpen Town Market under the Solid Waste Management Transformative Pilot Project. This initiative aims to tackle the city's waste crisis by turning organic waste into valuable compost, reducing landfill waste, and promoting sustainable waste management practices.
After soaring over the weekend, gas prices in B.C. are expected to come down 18.5 per cent as the province's consumer carbon tax is phased out.
The Trump administration and California are on the same side when it comes to a particular challenge of the state's auto emissions standards.
Detail not yet clear about new nature watchdog plan, which comes after previous attempt drew backlash from Western Australia Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaign Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has confirmed the federal environmental protection agency he has promised to establish if elected would not be “the same model” as the one he promised but failed to legislate during this term of government. In his first public comments about reviving the nature watchdog plan, Albanese confirmed Labor would pursue a different model in consultation with the states, industry and environmental groups. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
The group submitted answers to 35 questions from the agency, which is attempting to claw back $20 billion tied to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’ The US could be plunged back into an era of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the Donald Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, the scientist who discovered the existence of acid rain in North America has warned. A blitzkrieg launched by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on clean air and water regulations could revert the US to a time when cities were routinely shrouded in smog and even help usher back acid rain, according to Gene Likens, whose experiments helped identify acidic rainwater in the 1960s. Continue reading...