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US Environmental Protection Agency

June 2024

  • power plant just after sunrise behind rows of trees and grass

    US supreme court puts hold on EPA attempt to reduce pollution that drifts across states

    Court grants temporary halt to program designed to stop ‘upwind’ states from causing pollution that flows to ‘downwind’ neighbors
  • a man in a suit speaks near a petroleum refinery

    America's dirty divide
    EPA chief vows to take on Republican-led states over pollution rules rollback

    Michael Regan defends civil rights record and denies abandoning communities who face brunt of toxic pollution
  • A man wearing a baseball cap holds two salmon in his hands as he stands in front of a pile of more fish.

    A supreme court case about fishermen could throw government into chaos

    For decades, the Chevron deference doctrine has given broad powers to federal agencies. Now it could be overturned – with major consequences

May 2024

  • composite photo of mountain range on the left and man wearing sunglasses and grey top on the right

    America's dirty divide
    In one of the US’s hottest deserts, utilities push gas rather than solar

    In Fort Mohave, Arizona, even Republican voters are fighting gas power plants as utilities try to lock in fossil fuels

April 2024

  • people hold signs outside a home improvement store

    EPA to ban most uses of chemical linked to dozens of deaths

  • A researcher pours a PFAS water sample into a container

    EPA moves to make US polluters pay for cleanup of two forever chemicals

  • <strong>Rio Costilla NM Comanche Point in the Valle Vidal Geriant Smith</strong>

    America's dirty divide
    New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

  • A sweating glass of water that looks cold and delicious next to a table sign that says "Water is Precious - on California's Central Coast' and explains the drought, from 2016.

    EPA has limited six ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water – but there are 15,000

  • US imposes first-ever limits on levels of toxic PFAS in drinking water

  • America's dirty divide
    New rule mandates 200 US plants to reduce toxic emissions linked to cancer

March 2024

  • Photo of two smokestacks releasing puffy white clouds of steam into a blue sunny sky.

    America's dirty divide
    A Florida neighborhood says an old factory made them sick. Now developers want to kick up toxic soil

    Residents already hit with disease are fighting the multibillion-dollar corporation DR Horton, America’s largest homebuilder

February 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: The U.S. flag flies on Campbell Transportation's towboat M.K. McNally as it passes Mitchell Power Plant on the Ohio River in Moundsville<br>FILE PHOTO: The U.S. flag flies on Campbell Transportation's towboat M.K. McNally as it passes Mitchell Power Plant, a coal-fired power-plant operated by American Electric Power (AEP), on the Ohio River in Moundsville, West Virginia, U.S., September 10, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

    US supreme court seems skeptical about letting EPA enforce pollution rule

    Conservative majority appears unsympathetic to environmental agency’s ‘good neighbor’ rule for areas downwind of smog sources
  • Weeds grow in dirt

    EPA again OKs use of toxic herbicide linked to Parkinson’s disease

    Agency’s draft report backs paraquat’s safety but lawsuit’s plaintiffs say EPA ignored evidence of Parkinson’s risk
    • America's dirty divide
      ‘It would be devastating’: inside Trump’s plan to destroy the EPA

    • Our unequal earth
      US court bans three weedkillers and finds EPA broke law in approval process

    • America's dirty divide
      ‘Life-saving’: EPA tightens US pollution controls on soot

January 2024

  • Landscape of boxes, cars and cranes in the middle of a field.

    America's dirty divide
    ‘The EPA needs to humble itself’: why some US non-profits are turning down agency funds

    Community organizations say grants coming from the government have too many requirements to be truly accessible

December 2023

  • Tractor spraying pesticides over a green field

    America's dirty divide
    Former EPA official says agency fails to protect public from toxic pesticides

    Karen McCormack says regulators at environmental agency are discouraged from speaking up about dangerous chemicals
  • Orange shelves holding the product Roundup.

    Advocates demand US suspend weed-killing chemical that may cause cancer

    Coalition alleges glyphosate, the most heavily applied herbicide in history, does not meet required safety standard set by federal law
  • A woman surrounded by a group of children uses a laptop computer.

    Big oil uncovered
    California children sue EPA over ‘intentional’ role in climate crisis

    Genesis B v EPA is the latest in a series of youth-led constitutional climate cases brought by non-profit law firm Our Children’s Trust
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