The Moms Clean Air Force campaign will illuminate environmental and public health dangers that it says the administrator ...

The EPA's webpage explaining the causes of climate change has been modified to the point that it is now false, says climate ...

THE TWILIGHT ZONE — Picture if you will the citizens of a small town in Northeast Ohio, facing a daunting toxic threat yet trapped in a maze of regulatory capture at the so-called Environmental ...

The consequences for the President Donald Trump’s environmental agenda may crystallize as replacements are picked for the two advisory panels. Top EPA appointees acted swiftly and provided virtually ...

A document that was first issued in 2009 would seem an unlikely candidate for making news in 2025. Yet the past few weeks have seen a steady stream of articles about an analysis first issued by the ...

In this series, NPR takes readers behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Neela Banerjee is NPR's chief climate editor. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced plans to ...

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Jenni Doering with David Cash, the former EPA administrator for Region 1-New England. Former ...

The Environmental Protection Agency says that so-called “forever chemicals,” which are harmful to human health, must be removed from U.S. drinking water. It's a moment public health advocates have ...

The Trump administration plans to increase “regulatory flexibility” for oil and gas companies trying to find ways to dispose of copious amounts of toxic wastewater. The wastewater, also known as ...

In late June 2025, a rumor spread online that the Environmental Protection Agency, under U.S. President Donald Trump, planned to reverse a ban on asbestos, a toxic, cancer-causing mineral once widely ...

When President Joe Biden entered office, he promised to ensure environmental justice for communities of color that have been disproportionately harmed by pollution. The head of Biden's EPA, Michael ...

An emergency order halting sales has been issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the pesticide DCPA, with the agency saying that the common weed killer may pose a safety threat ...