CBS News7d
EPA rushes to meet Trump's deadline to clear toxic debris from Los Angeles area wildfire zones
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday allowed CBS News to accompany an EPA team sifting through the ash searching for toxic debris. "We look for any uncombusted paints," Harry Allen ...
The Hill11d
EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’
More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were notified last week that they may be subject to immediate firing, according to an email obtained by The Hill. The email ...
CNN7d
EPA places more than 160 environmental justice employees on paid leave
More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...
CNN14d
EPA workers receive emails warning their employment could be terminated
The emails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official. The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US ...
Townhall9d
The EPA’s Endangerment Finding Belongs on the Ash Heap of History
This is a prime example of government gone wild. The Clean Air Act was never intended to allow the EPA to declare carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant. Rather, it was designed to “address ...
ProPublica23d
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the ...
Reuters29d
Trump's pick to lead EPA says agency authorized, not required to regulate CO2
Zeldin told the hearing that he believes climate change is real, a departure from his predecessors who led the EPA during the first Trump administration from 2017 to 2020 and from Trump himself ...
The Washington Post23d
70 countries have banned this pesticide. It’s still for sale in the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it needed more time to study the health impacts of paraquat, a powerful herbicide that has drawn scrutiny for its possible links to ...
WBUR24d
Outgoing New England EPA head says Trump's environmental agenda is 'counter to the values' of U.S.
Cash spent almost three years in the EPA post. He spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins shortly after he resigned about what Trump's policies will mean for environmental ...
The New York Times10d
E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More
A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was “common practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection ...
The New York Times23d
Two Industry Executives Join E.P.A. to Help Oversee Chemical Rules
Chris Jahn, chief executive of the American Chemistry Council, said in a statement that the group looked forward “to working with all EPA staff in support of sound science” and policy to ...