EPA Ditches Red Tape To Fast-Track Toxic Superfund Cleanups

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new long-term initiative on Wednesday aimed at cutting through ...
CBS News

3 ways the EPA's rollback of environmental regulations could affect Americans' health if air pollution worsens

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...
JD Supra

Battery Collection Best Practices: United States Environmental Protection Agency Report to Congress

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued an April 2026 report to the U.S. Congress titled: ...

Iowa environmental groups sue EPA over removal of waterways from impaired list

Iowa environmental groups are suing the EPA over the removal of Iowa rivers from the state's impaired list. What's at stake ...
CBS News

EPA shutters its scientific research arm, with hundreds of scientists expected to be impacted

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that ...
JD Supra

Air Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Livermore, California Landfill Operator Enter into Consent Agreement

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. (“WMAC”) entered into an April 28th ...
CNN

EPA creates new office with focus on environmental justice

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on March 8, 2023, because an earlier version of the story did not meet CNN editorial standards. The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is ...

Environmental Protection Agency boss backs big budget cuts but Congress will get the final say

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is back on Capitol Hill defending the administration's plan to cut in half ...
Summit County

Ask Eartha: Why is the Environmental Protection Agency important?

Dear Eartha, Can you explain what the EPA does and why it’s important? This year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns 55. In its relatively short lifetime, the EPA has had a ...
CNN

EPA places more than 160 environmental justice employees on paid leave

Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes ...
In These Times

The Remarkable and Entirely Underappreciated Achievements of the EPA

Environmental Protection Agency workers in protective clothing checking soil in area of closed plant for toxic waste contamination. Photo by Steve Liss/Getty Images The Court’s reasoning may well ...

Agency will move forward with plans to propose weakening some Biden-era PFAS limits, official says

The Trump administration will soon propose softening Biden-era limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water, delaying but keeping tough standards for two common types and rescinding limits on some ...