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Byline: Amudalat Ajasa, Silvia Foster-Frau The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule Tuesday requiring water utilities to replace all lead pipes within a decade, a move aimed at eliminating a [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow, Amudalat Ajasa For the first time in 40 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has taken emergency action to stop the use of a pesticide linked to serious [...]

Byline: Amudalat Ajasa A knock on the door forced Cathy Flint to her feet. It had been five years since her diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a cancer that has left [...]

Byline: Sarah Raza The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced an investment of $4.3 billion into community-driven projects in an effort to ramp up local climate action across the country. [...]

If Donald Trump returns to the White House, he would likely face fewer legal and bureaucratic obstacles to dramatically remake the E.P.A. As president, Donald Trump's sweeping attempts to roll [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow Marathon Oil will pay a record $64.5 million penalty and invest an estimated $177 million in pollution-cutting measures to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act [...]

Byline: SHANNON KARI Toronto-based freelance reporter who writes about courts in Canada and the United States for The Globe and Mail and many legal publications. He was a Michener Award [...]

AUTOMOTIVE G.M. Is Fined Over Cars Cited in Illegal Emissions The Biden administration reached a settlement with General Motors after determining that the automaker sold nearly six million cars that [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow Three years ago, President Biden promised to âdeliver a whole-of-government approach to the climate crisis,â including by making half of all new cars electric by 2030. Now [...]

Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency. A spate of decisions over the past two years by [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the power of federal agencies to regulate the environment, public health and other fundamental aspects of American life. The 6-3 ruling, [...]

Half of the water flowing through regional river basins starts in so-called ephemeral streams. Last year, the Supreme Court curtailed federal protections for these waterways. Last year, the Supreme Court [...]

Three states challenged the administration's ''good neighbor'' plan, meant to protect downwind states from harmful emissions. The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal, Maxine Joselow The Supreme Court dealt a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of air quality on Thursday, putting on hold a major initiative to improve [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday a ban on most uses of methylene chloride, a toxic solvent used in paint stripping that has been linked to at [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized an ambitious set of rules aimed at slashing air pollution, water pollution and planet-warming emissions spewing from the nationÇÖs power [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded $20 billion to help finance clean-energy projects across the country, marking one of the Biden administrationâs biggest investments in combating [...]

The latest in a string of ambitious climate regulations aims to clean up the heaviest polluters on the road. But truckers are worried. The Biden administration on Friday announced a [...]

Byline: Anna Phillips The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a ban on chrysotile asbestos, part of a family of toxic minerals linked to lung cancer and other illnesses that [...]

The delay reflects opposition from industry leaders and some swing state Democrats. Facing intense opposition from major industries and some Democrats, the Biden administration on Thursday said it would delay [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed steep new fees on methane emissions from oil and gas facilities, escalating a crackdown on the fossil fuel industry's planet-warming [...]

Byline: Maxine Joselow and Anna Phillips For decades, American children have traveled to school in buses that spew pollution - diesel fumes that have been linked to asthma and other [...]

Byline: Anna Phillips In a sweeping decision that could be expensive but beneficial to public health, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed requiring water utilities nationwide to replace all [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko and Darryl Fears In a setback for environmental justice advocates, the Biden administration has closed a civil rights investigation of two Louisiana state agencies without finding discrimination [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko and Darryl Fears In a setback for environmental justice advocates, the Biden administration has closed a civil rights investigation of two Louisiana state agencies without finding discrimination [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko In a setback for environmental justice advocates, the Biden administration has closed a civil rights investigation of two Louisiana state agencies without finding discrimination in how the [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner It's been a point of rare bipartisan agreement that the coolants commonly used in air conditioners and refrigerators contribute to global warming and need to be phased [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang President Biden on Wednesday vetoed a Republican-led resolution that would have repealed new limits from his administration on emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, saying the measure 'would [...]

The $1.19 billion agreement, announced by Chemours, DuPont and Corteva, wouldn't resolve all the claims against them. Three major chemical companies on Friday said they would pay more than $1 [...]

Byline: Evan Halper The trash burning industry was eager to show it is not a polluting relic but a pioneering clean tech sector worthy of millions of dollars in new [...]

Experts said the decision would sharply undercut the agency's authority to protect millions of acres of wetlands under the Clean Water Act, leaving them subject to pollution without penalty. The [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes, Timothy Puko and Ann E. Marimow WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday cut back the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the nation's wetlands, [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) said Wednesday that he will oppose all of President Biden's nominees for the Environmental Protection Agency unless the administration rescinds a [...]

If the regulation is implemented, it will be the first time the federal government has limited carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of U.S. greenhouse gases. [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko The Biden administration is preparing to unveil a proposal to require power plants to drastically reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040, another attempt to regulate one of [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko The Biden administration is preparing to unveil a proposal to require power plants to nearly eliminate their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040, another attempt to regulate one of [...]

Byline: Timothy Puko The Biden administration soon will unveil a proposal to require power plants to nearly eliminate their greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, a second try to regulate one [...]

Byline: Fredrick Kunkle The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to step up enforcement in Pennsylvania to ensure that it meets targets for reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, state and [...]

In what would be the nation's most ambitious climate regulation, the proposal is designed to ensure that electric cars make up the majority of new U.S. auto sales by 2032. [...]

The rule would chiefly affect plants along the Gulf Coast, the Ohio River Valley and in West Virginia. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration on Thursday proposed a new regulation to [...]

Byline: Ian Duncan An environmental company abandoned a plan Tuesday to treat contaminated runoff water from East Palestine, Ohio, in Baltimore after city officials blocked it from using the sewer [...]

The government will strictly limit in drinking water two chemicals that are ubiquitous in modern society but are linked to a range of health effects. WASHINGTON -- For the first [...]

When a Norfolk Southern train carrying nearly 116,000 gallons of vinyl chloride derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, local officials made a pivotal decision: to drain the highly toxic [...]

Byline: Justine McDaniel, Amy B Wang, Ian Duncan and Scott Dance The chief executive of a railroad company that operated a train that derailed and caused a release of toxic [...]

Byline: Dan Zak EAST PALESTINE, Ohio - Ben stayed. Jami left. 'I have some cognitive dissonance with the decision I made,' says Ben. 'We just grabbed the baby,' says Jami. [...]

Byline: Anna Phillips The Biden administration moved Wednesday to strengthen a rule limiting millions of gallons of toxic water pollution from coal power plants, a change that could lead some [...]

As a representative for Norfolk Southern tried to apologize and outline its recovery efforts, residents shouted over him at a meeting in East Palestine, Ohio, demanding that the company ''do [...]

Byline: Scott Dance After weeks of questions about contamination associated with a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered rail company Norfolk Southern to [...]

Byline: Scott Dance After weeks of questions about contamination associated with a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday ordered rail company Norfolk Southern to [...]