This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A South Carolina federal judge this week ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to resume distributing funds designed to address environmental and health challenges in underserved communities. In June, US District Judge Richard Gergel voided the Trump administration’s termination of the $2.8 billion Environmental and […]
STATEMENT: U.S. EPA Move to Reverse California’s Clean Air Act Waivers Plays Politics with Public Health darla.vanhoorn… Fri, 07/24/2026 - 11:13 Washington, D.C. (July 24, 2026) — This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent two California Clean Air Act waiver approvals to Congress, seeking to overturn them via the Congressional Review Act. These waivers allow California to protect people living in the state’s densely populated port regions from dangerous pollution emitted by ocean-going vessels at berth and commercial harbor craft . Following is a statement from Sue Gander, Director...
The EPA has proposed a rule change that would let states decide how much input the public has on air pollution permits. It would be a huge boon for data centers increasingly reliant on fossil fuels.
Manufacturers and green groups have already challenged the Trump administration’s decision to give industries five more years to phase out potent greenhouse gases.
The Trump administration has been dragging its feet on implementing the Biden-era standard, which recently survived legal challenges.
EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public The Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers , destroyed their livelihoods , killed livestock , polluted water supplies , and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public. The proposed regulations would largely have ended the use of sludge, also called biosolids , in the nation’s food system. But the Environmental Protection Agency tossed out its scientific research from less than two years ago that formed the basis of the proposed regulations. It justified the decision by declaring that sludge was not a wide threat to the public because...
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EPA chief Lee Zeldin proposed key changes to a nitrogen oxides emissions rule — but will also leave numerical standards in place.
[Liberian Investigator] The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, has announced that the Liberian government has finalized an agreement to purchase the agency's headquarters in Mamba Point, ending years of rental payments, while unveiling a €100,000 laboratory machine donated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to boost the country's environmental monitoring capacity.
[Liberian Observer] The Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) and the Nitrain Community Forest Management Body (NCFMB) have threatened legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), accusing the agency of failing to respond to a formal complaint alleging environmental destruction and violations of community rights by Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL).
The post The First Major Overhaul of Public Lands Grazing Regulations in a Generation Looks to Cut Out Public Involvement appeared first on ProPublica.
A state-of-the-art greenhouse gas monitoring instrument spearheaded by a Hong Kong university has officially commenced operations aboard China’s Tiangong space station, following its successful installation by the city’s first home-grown astronaut, Lai Ka-ying. The Multi-Spectral Imaging Carbon Observatory (Musico) – often dubbed the “Eye for Space” – will remain in orbit for at least two years, according to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which led the development of the...
In an unusual move, EPA has drafted a second proposal defining waters covered by the Clean Water Act, months after unveiling a similar rule.
In April, EPA Chief Lee Zeldin and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a news conference declaring their dedication to studying microplastics, in the human body and in drinking water. But a new EPA drinking water testing rule leaves them out.
Blue states have asked EPA to include the tiny particles in the rule, which influences future regulations and informs consumers.
Firefighters were involved in joint response to Knowles and Gore blazes as wildfires ravage western US, fire agency says Three firefighters were killed and two others were hurt while responding to wildfires along the Colorado - Utah border, the US Wildland Fire Service announced on Sunday. The agency, which was established in January to coordinate wildfire suppression and prevention efforts across public lands, said the firefighters were involved in a joint response to the Knowles and Gore fires on Saturday. Continue reading...
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a crackdown on pesticide smuggling into the United States.
The changes roll back obligations for companies seeking to drill on public lands, including a bonding requirement that was hiked during the Biden administration.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is used to track greenhouse effects and weather.
EPA tells utilities which contaminants they should monitor in drinking water. State attorneys general have some suggestions.
An advocate warns that rolling back a key climate finding could expose children – especially in Black and Brown communities – to more dangerous air pollution. The post Trump EPA move sparks fears over kids’ health appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Abstract Less than five years remain until 2030 deadlines for the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Global Biodiversity Framework. Yet, the gulf between lofty commitments and actual progress grows wider each year. Field stations have tremendous, largely untapped potential to turn these targets into on-the-ground achievements. This is particularly true in the tropics, where biodiversity and carbon mitigation opportunities are highest. Strengthening tropical field stations creates powerful opportunities to partner with locals, support sustainable livelihoods at the interface of wildlands and protected areas, and integrate Indigenous and traditional knowledge with scientific inquiry to develop informed conservation strategies grounded in context-specific evidence. If...
Becoming an astronaut and exploring space has been the dream of generations of young people and Hong Kong has welcomed this pioneering moment. Dr Lai Ka-Ying, who studied computer science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has become the first astronaut from Hong Kong, and the fourth female astronaut from China, to journey into space. As a payload specialist, she will operate the observatory designed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to track greenhouse gas...
Despite arguments from environmentalists, EPA says there are no lingering health risks or new cost-effective technologies.
Despite giving Texas a win, the state and industry groups are still pressuring EPA to act as quickly as possible.
Lee Zeldin says ‘low-volume release’ of flammable chemicals is most likely amid fears of explosion at Orange county facility near Disneyland Government officials in Orange county, California , have warned that an overheated chemical tank “will fail” and could result in a chemical explosion in the area, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator said on Sunday. “We’re being told that the tank will fail, but there are different scenarios as to what that means,” Lee Zeldin, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. Zeldin, a former Republican congressman with no prior experience in environmental policy, was chosen by Trump as the head of the EPA . Continue reading...
EPA is loosening Biden-era rule that requires US businesses to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said the Biden-era rule imposes costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants US businesses and families can use. Continue reading...
[FrontPageAfrica] Grand Bassa -- The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia has ordered the immediate closure of a hazardous waste dumpsite used by the Buchanan City Corporation in Buchanan, following serious environmental and public health concerns identified during an enforcement operation.
EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’ The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two other compounds. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two separate rules to delay and rescind the limits. The rules must go through an approval process that can take several years, and almost certainly will be challenged in court. Continue reading...
The Trump administration argues automakers can't sell enough EVs to meet the Biden-era standard. EPA is planning a broader rewrite.
“Understanding what EPA has done over the decades, and why, can be very important in defending EPA," said a former lead environment attorney at the Justice Department.
A controversial land swap orchestrated by the mega rich could be ‘a harbinger of what’s to come’ for public lands under Trump. The post The billionaires’ club at the center of America’s public lands fight appeared first on High Country News.
Judges indicated they felt EPA had justified giving integrated iron and steel mills more time to comply with a Biden-era rule the agency intends to rewrite.
[New Times] Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB) on Thursday, May 7, launched a subsidised insurance for greenhouse agriculture to protect farmers against climate shocks, while encouraging investment in commercial agriculture.
A rarely used Clean Water Act authority allows EPA to retroactively veto project permits, a power some worry a future administration could wield more frequently.
The Trump administration is working to ease requirements for states to curb emissions that harm visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
Lee Zeldin claims before Senate that Trump administration plan will make Environmental Protection Agency ‘more efficient’ Senate Democrats accused the Trump administration of abandoning the Environmental Protection Agency ’s mission to protect human health and the environment at a congressional hearing Wednesday, slamming agency leadership over a proposal to cut its budget in half. Lee Zeldin’s appearance before the Senate environment committee was the EPA administrator’s last of three budget hearings this week where he argued for sharply reduced funding for the agency, which already has seen its staffing reduced to its lowest level in decades under his leadership. During much of the week, the former Republican congressman from New York took an aggressive approach, responding to Democrats...
The Trump administration has been circulating flyers at this week’s gathering of the International Maritime Organization.
The inspections were 20 percent below quota for assessing large waste generators from 2020 to 2024, the EPA inspector general found.
The agency’s inspector general had sought to uncover “fraud, waste, and abuse” in the city’s handling of EPA funds.
There haven't been any cost-effective tech pollution upgrades since 2012, EPA argues.
The Trump administration wants to ease hydrofluorocarbon restrictions and vehicle emissions standards.
The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales. The post Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda appeared first on High Country News.
In an exception to his blitz on environmental regulations, EPA chief Lee Zeldin is delaying the nod to PFAS over fears of angering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s movement.
The proposal would exempt more than 100 dumps from EPA cleanup requirements and undo Biden-era groundwater monitoring rules.
Administrator Lee Zeldin says his agency can't regulate greenhouse gases without congressional approval. Some legal experts disagree.
The billionaire inventor said the Chancellor's 'death taxes' on farmers and Ed Miliband's continued defence of carbon taxes is weakening Britain's capacity to stay self-sufficient
An EPA lawyer said the dissent letter "is likely protected speech under the First Amendment" and advised against “retaliatory” moves.
EPA said it will tackle ethylene oxide standards for smaller chemical facilities in a later rulemaking that will also include "major" sources.
[Liberian Observer] MONROVIA -- A key environmental approval granted by Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Ivanhoe Atlantic is emerging as more than a routine regulatory step--it may mark the first real test of the country's long-anticipated shift to a multi-user rail system.
Advocates say Lee Zeldin’s EPA has rolled back protections and cut staff and funding, putting health at risk Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox More than 160 environmental and public health organizations on Tuesday called for Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, to resign or be fired. “No [EPA] administrator in history – Democratic or Republican – has so brazenly betrayed the agency’s core mission,” the groups wrote in an open letter . “EPA’s foremost purpose is to protect human health and the environment. With Administrator Lee Zeldin at the helm, EPA has abandoned its mission, creating damage that will take decades to address.” Continue reading...
The organizations say the agency administrator slashed funding and staff as well as "rigged the system" to give polluters leeway.
[New Dawn] Grand Capemount County, March 23, 2026: Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC) says it has taken note of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent statement dated March 20, 2026, regarding the fish mortality incident reported at Marvoe Creek in Grand Cape Mount County.
Lawsuit says rescission of endangerment finding – which ruled greenhouse gases threaten public health – was illegal Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A coalition of 24 states, alongside a dozen cities and counties, has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the bedrock scientific determination underpinning virtually all US climate regulations. The new lawsuit , filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday, is being led by the states of Massachusetts, California, New York and Connecticut. It argues that the Environmental Protection Agency’s February rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding – which the White House described as the “single largest deregulatory action in US history”...
The proposal would roll back 2024 emission standards on about 90 plants that rely on ethylene oxide to sterilize medical equipment.
The proposal would roll back a Biden-era rule on emissions of ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize medical equipment.
In its response to an inspector general report, the agency said “grant funding for EPA is anticipated to contract dramatically."
Staffers were suspended or fired for signing an open letter excoriating the Trump administration for its treatment of EPA science and workers.
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is quietly considering a rule change that could make it easier for polluters to build facilities—including certain gas plants and diesel generators that power data centers—with little to no notice to the public. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing […]
‘Ratepayer Protection Pledge’ president has touted is non-binding as people continue to struggle with rising bills Donald Trump has announced that about 200 entities have signed on to his non-binding “Ratepayer Protection Pledge”, expanding a voluntary commitment which claims to ensure US consumers will not bear the cost of the AI datacenter build-out. Trump delivered remarks on Thursday at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters, alongside Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator, and Chris Wright, the energy secretary. Other attenders included governors who signed on to the pledge, including Brian Kemp of Georgia, Mike DeWine of Ohio, Spencer Cox of Utah and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Continue reading...
Just a short time after reducing regulations regarding fuel and exhaust systems around diesel engines, the EPA seems to be cutting them even more.
The decision could have implications for a separate but related fight over the $20 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants.
EPA gave grocery stores five additional years to switch to buying food storage systems that don't use hydrofluorocarbons.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- President Joseph Boakai, has hailed the Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo, describing him as "an asset to Liberia" and "a gift to the nation" during the official dedication of the Agency's new permanent headquarters in Mamba Point, Monrovia.
The Trump EPA calls Biden-era rules for cutting pollution from heavy trucks "unworkable." The proposed changes have been celebrated by trucking groups and denounced by environmental groups.
The Center for Biological Diversity said EPA rarely requires cancer warnings, even on ingredients it agrees are tied to the disease.
The recession will end another part of the Biden administration’s work at EPA to promote relief for areas with disadvantaged populations living near industrial sites.
EPA issued draft guidance and said the Biden administration overhyped the risks from sludge-based fertilizers.
EPA is pulling back a draft document that warned that sewage sludge fertilizer could spread "forever chemicals," replacing it with voluntary guidance.
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Emmanuel King Urey Yarkpawolo, has called on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) across Liberia to embrace climate-smart business practices, declaring that the country's climate agenda cannot be achieved by government alone but requires strong participation from the private sector.
Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson and Sydney Watson killed working to contain raging fires on Utah-Colorado border The US Department of Interior on Monday released the names of three firefighters who were killed while working to contain wildfires along the Utah-Colorado border. Two other firefighters who were part of the specialized helicopter-deployed crew were also injured in the blaze, although authorities did not identify them. Continue reading...
Abstract Natural flood management (NFM) offers a sustainable alternative to traditional flood mitigation by harnessing natural processes to slow and attenuate floods. This paper introduces a biogeomorphic levers framework to conceptualize NFM across three spatial scales; channels and reaches, valleys and corridors, and tributaries and catchments. By identifying geomorphic and vegetative elements that can be manipulated to enhance hydraulic roughness and deliver flood mitigation, the framework provides a practical tool for implementation and communication. The article provides an overview of the challenges of scaling NFM for different flood magnitudes and offers a reality check for practitioners and decision-makers. This forum reframes NFM as a nature-based, multi-scalar strategy for the 21st...
[Liberian Observer] MONROVIA -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Forestry Development Authority (FDA), in collaboration with development partners, have launched a renewed national conservation agenda aimed at strengthening Liberia's environmental governance and accelerating the implementation of key biodiversity and climate policies.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has known for nearly a decade that an influential 2013 scientific paper that concluded glyphosate is safe was actually ghostwritten by developer Monsanto. But the agency never informed the public and continued to rely on it, according to an EPA memo obtained by Mother Jones and revealed here for the […]
While health advocates await EPA’s action plan, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has focused on rebranding agency work as “MAHA wins.”
The Trump administration objected to a previous order by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley to reinstate removed content at national parks, saying it would be an “unmanageable task.”
"EPA is not the party that is negotiating and or mediating or refereeing that deal," the EPA administrator said.
Two members of Congress have sent a letter to US Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz calling on the agency to justify its actions following an investigation by Mother Jones that found glyphosate—the controversial key ingredient in the herbicide Roundup—was being sprayed in record amounts on public lands. “Given the recent scientific disputes, retracted studies, and […]
Facing fires and floods, homeowners in Lincoln County, New Mexico, are considering buyouts designed to move them out of harm's way. The post Managed retreat in Ruidoso could mean more public lands appeared first on High Country News.
[Liberian Observer] An independent investigation into the controversial hydrochloric acid spill in Money Sweet Town, Bong County, has challenged the conclusions of Liberia's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding evidence of significant human exposure, health complications, environmental contamination concerns, and lasting social and economic impacts on residents.
„Es scheint, als hätten sie weitgehend die Positionen der Chemieindustrie übernommen“ – Experten kritisieren Trumps Kurs bei giftigen PFAS-Chemikalien. Dieser Artikel wurde ursprünglich von Grist veröffentlicht. Den wöchentlichen Grist-Newsletter können Sie hier abonnieren. Die Trump-Regierung hat angekündigt, was sie als „einen bedeutenden Schritt nach vorn“ im Kampf gegen eine Klasse giftiger Chemikalien namens PFAS bezeichnet – kurz für per- und polyfluorierte Alkylverbindungen. Längerer Kontakt mit PFAS, oft als „Forever Chemicals“ bezeichnet, weil sie sich... Der Beitrag Trumps EPA verspricht den Kampf gegen „Forever Chemicals“ – durch Lockerung der Vorschriften erschien zuerst auf Rolling Stone.
The EPA said it was cutting Biden-era regulations on Pfas in drinking water, but advocates say the move will harm public health and benefit industry A new Trump administration plan to ditch Pfas drinking water regulations and instead attempt to destroy “forever chemicals” on a wide scale tears a page from the fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture playbook, and will benefit the industry while harming public health. The US Environmental Protection Agency last week announced it is moving to kill strong Biden-era drinking water limits around four Pfas compounds, and delaying implementation for two more. It represented a blow to public health – advocates say strong limits and a dramatic cut in the production of the dangerous chemicals are imperative. Continue reading...
President Donald Trump has rolled back Biden-era policies reducing high-polluting greenhouse gases in refrigeration and air-conditioning.
In their Research Article “Democratizing climate change mitigation pathways using modernized stabilization wedges” (5 March, 10.1126/science.adr2118), N. Johnson and I. Staffell present a useful framework for identifying scalable strategies (or “wedges”) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Marine wild fisheries can also serve as a climate mitigation wedge.
Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.
A geoengineering company would use tiny specks of silica to block sun rays — and make billions of dollars.
The pushback from the Senate's top EPA appropriator follows similar skepticism of massive budget cuts from her House Republican counterparts.
Ethylene oxide (EtO) is about 60 times more carcinogenic than believed in 2006, research finds A new Trump administration plan to rescind 2024 regulations for toxic ethylene oxide (EtO) pollution more broadly aims to limit the Environmental Protection Agency ’s authority to strengthen public health protections around hazardous emissions and could result in more of the toxin being released into the air. Recent research has found EtO is about 60 times more carcinogenic than thought when the last regulations were developed in 2006. In 2024, the Biden EPA passed a rule that strengthened the regulations to reflect the updated science, and required the nation’s EtO emitters to collectively cut their emissions by about 90%. Continue reading...
Environmentalists argue the "project emissions accounting" rule will make it easier for major sources to avoid New Source Review permitting.
The post Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email. appeared first on ProPublica.
[Liberian Observer] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia has announced sweeping enforcement actions against major companies, ordering Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC) to finance the full scientific restoration of Lofa Creek following a pesticide spill that led to the mass death of aquatic life and the discovery of dead fish buried along the riverbank.
The post “A Huge Setback”: New EPA Directive Could Weaken Hundreds of Chemical Regulations appeared first on ProPublica.
New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."
The Trump administration is hoping a court blocks the Biden-era rule. States say EPA doesn't have the authority to ignore the requirements.
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
The EPA chief’s partisan attacks energize the base but risk weakening cases he’d oversee if he's named attorney general.
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would have catastrophic consequences for Europe, Africa and the Americas. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system and was already known to be at its weakest for 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Scientists spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021 and know that the Amoc has collapsed in the Earth’s past. Continue reading...
If finalized, it would be the first time EPA has completed a risk evaluation under the revamped Toxic Substances Control Act without finding risks to human health or the environment.
The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox US public lands will “pay the price” of a drive by Donald Trump ’s officials to restructure the agency that oversees them, union leaders have warned, accusing the administration of forcing workers to decide whether to relocate or resign. All regional offices of the US Forest Service, which manages 78m hectares (193m acres) of land – roughly the size of Texas – are set to close as part of an overhaul launched by the Trump administration. The service has already shed hundreds of staff members since Trump returned to power last year. Continue reading...
Broader changes are in the works, but EPA has finished a technical reconsideration of two provisions from late in the Biden administration.
Rally met with bipartisan support after US border patrol revealed plans for steel wall across parts of beloved parks The story is co-published with Public Domain , an investigative newsroom that covers public lands, wildlife and government Thousands of people gathered at the steps of the Texas capitol on Saturday to protest against the construction of a border wall through Big Bend, in a show of bipartisan opposition to the White House’s plans. Continue reading...
Proposal, a win for RFK Jr’s Maha movement, is a ‘first step’ toward tackling plastic pollution, advocates say The Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) proposed on Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water for the first time, a step that could lead to new limits on those substances for water utilities. Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, said the agency was responding to Americans who have worried about plastics and pharmaceuticals in their drinking water. The gesture also aims to hand a win to health secretary Robert FKennedy Jr ’s Maha movement , which for months has pressured Zeldin to further crack down on environmental contaminants. Continue reading...
An extremely warm March melted most of the snow in California's Sierra Nevada. The early melt fits a long-term pattern as greenhouse gases push temperatures higher.
A coalition of health and green groups filed a petition to defend Biden-era standards for mercury and other toxic emissions.
Congress could always pass a law more explicitly ordering EPA to regulate greenhouse gases, he said, though the chances of that happening are slim.
The agency wants to postpone worker protection deadlines while it mulls changes to rules for perchloroethylene, carbon tetrachloride and other risky chemicals.
In the age of extinction, we need a new model for these landscapes and the communities that rely on them. The post Public lands need less extraction and more rewilding appeared first on High Country News.
In a letter, the lawmakers urged appropriators to stop any funding for the department's review of historical references at national parks and other public lands.
EPA has stepped back from its role as the nation's top cop on pollution, 13 states said in a letter to the agency.
The Trump administration's air quality standards are weaker than those proposed by EPA two years ago.
Top US regulators met with Bill Anderson to discuss ‘supreme court action’ over glyphosate weed killer Top US regulators met with Bill Anderson, Bayer’s CEO, last year to discuss “litigation” issues – including “supreme court action” over its glyphosate weed killer – just months before the Trump administration took a series of steps to boost Bayer’s case at the high court, internal government records show. The 17 June meeting, between officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Anderson and two other top Bayer executives, came as the Germany-based company was working to quash costly US litigation brought by tens of thousands of people who allege they developed cancer from their use of the company’s glyphosate-based herbicides, such as Roundup. Continue reading...
The leader of the U.N. International Maritime Organization speaks about the president’s campaign to kill a net-zero initiative.
Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump’s DoJ Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued in court. Trump’s justice department has asked a judge to kill a first-of-its-kind 2024 Vermont “climate superfund” policy requiring major polluters to pay for damages caused by their past planet-heating pollution, partly on the grounds that that federal law, not state law, governs greenhouse gas emissions. But last month, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) repealed the endangerment finding, the...
[Daily Maverick] A robust carbon tax keeps more revenue in South Africa and encourages local companies to reduce product emissions to improve competitiveness in international markets, and it aligns with international support for decarbonisation efforts here.