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US Environmental Protection Agency

July 2023

  • Siblings Sera, 4, left, and Aly, 2, wait for their dad at their home in Philadelphia, PA. on Monday, February 25, 2020. Both were found to have lead poisoning due to the old paint in their current home. Hannah Yoon

    US government proposes stricter rules to limit harmful lead exposure

  • 20230706 US Global defender of Chemicals 1

    The US banned a brain harming pesticide on food. Why has it slowed a global ban?

June 2023

  • A warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam Thursday Aug. 9, 2012. The sign reads; "Dioxin contamination zone - livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted". The U.S. and Vietnam on Thursday launched a four-year joint effort to clean up dioxin leftover from Agent Orange that was mixed, stored and loaded onto planes at the former U.S. military base, which is now part of Danang s airport. Dioxin can linger in soils and at the bottom of lakes and rivers for generations, entering the food supply through the fat of fish and other animals. (AP Photo/Maika Elan)

    EPA sued over reapproval of toxic herbicides using Agent Orange chemical

    Federal suit brought by public health groups alleges agency’s science shows human risks and harm to endangered species
  • Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The federal agency had not updated its rule regulating the chemicals used to break up offshore oil slicks since 1994.

    US government toughens rules on chemicals used to break up oil slicks

    Environmental activists sued EPA to update regulations, after thousands of people sickened from Deepwater Horizon cleanup
  • Beekeepers Work At Bureau County Honey Co.<br>Carniolan honey bees fly near hives owned by Bureau County Honey Co. near Hennepin, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, July 3, 2014. Bees pollinate scores of plants from apricots to zucchini and are responsible for increasing crop values by $15 billion each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Some beekeepers blame a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids that have gained widespread use in the past decade and have been linked to a mysterious die-off of bees called Colony Collapse Disorder. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    EPA sued over pesticide-coated seeds’ ‘devastating impacts’ on US wildlife

    Environmental groups’ lawsuit seeks to force tighter regulation of neonicotinoids on seeds that pollute soil, water and air

May 2023

  • FILE - Michael and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake, Idaho, pose for a photo in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 14, 2011. The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 25, 2023, made it harder for the federal government to police water pollution in a decision that strips protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water. The justices boosted property rights over concerns about clean water in a ruling in favor of an Idaho couple who sought to build a house near Priest Lake in the state’s panhandle. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

    US supreme court shrinks clean water protections in ruling siding with Idaho couple

  • The aftermath of the train crash in East Palestine, Ohio.

    EPA finally wakes up with stiff new climate rules: ‘They’ve hit full throttle’

  • Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 1, 2021. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

    New US rules could stem emissions from coal and gas power plants

  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters in Washington, DC.

    US agency takes unprecedented action to tackle PFAS water pollution

April 2023

  • Biden at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in September.

    Biden team proposes strict vehicle pollution limits to boost EV sales

  • The Chevron refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

    EPA faces questions over plastic-based fuel with huge cancer risk

March 2023

  • Destroyed rail cars in the aftermath of the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, seen on 19 February 2023.

    US environmental agency to conduct internal inquiry over Ohio train wreck

  • ‘My wife of 35 years woke me up recently because my breathing was so bad; she said I sounded like I had fluid in my lungs.’

    I live near the East Palestine chemical spill. Officials who say we’re safe are lying

    Greg Mascher
  • The controversy centered around a 2021 toxicity report for PFBS, a type of PFAS compound that is toxic at low levels.

    Trump appointees interfered to weaken EPA assessment of toxic chemical

  • Equipment used to test for PFAS in drinking water.

    EPA sets ‘groundbreaking’ limits on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

February 2023

  • ‘East Palestine residents are reporting headaches, sore throats, and burning eyes; dead pets and chickens; and thousands of fish corpses in nearby waterways.’

    Ohio is facing a chemical disaster. Biden must declare a state of emergency

    Steven Donziger
  • A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains on 6 February.

    ‘Trust the government’: EPA seeks to reassure Ohio residents near toxic spill

January 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: Sockeye salmon are seen in Bristol Bay, Alaska, in an undated handout picture provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). REUTERS/Environmental Protection Agency/Handout via Reuters/File Photo

    EPA vetoes Alaska mine to protect salmon in win for environmentalists

    Move is a victory for the environment, economy and tribes of Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, and is ‘victory for science over politics’

December 2022

  • Sonoma Creek flowing throug Enchanted forrest at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, California<br>TRA2DE Sonoma Creek flowing throug Enchanted forrest at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, California

    Biden administration drafts new rules to protect streams and wetlands

  • Suncor Energy oil refinery.

    Environmental justice in America
    Colorado: EPA investigates if pollution unfairly harms Hispanic residents

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