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Environmentalists sue EPA to ban toxic chemical at refineries, including in Torrance, Wilmington
Efforts to more strictly regulate the chemical, known as hydrofluoric acid and modified hydrofluoric acid, are escalating to ...
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was hired to protect environment, not destroy it | Letters
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is not doing his job, and we will all suffer the consequences of this administration’s war on ...
EPA to offer new round of buyouts, realign environmental law enforcement
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday said that it will offer a new round of buyouts and plans to “re-align” ...
EPA drafts rule to strike down landmark climate finding
The agency proposes to overturn  the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which underpins nationwide greenhouse gas emission limits ...
EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office
On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new ...
Federal cuts target EPA research center in Ada
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Office of Research and Development and reduce its ...
Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office
Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, the union representing 8,000 EPA ...
Shifting Currents in Environmental Law: SCOTUS Limits EPA Authority and Curbs NEPA Review
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2025 term delivered two decisions reshaping environmental and administrative law. In City and County ...
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EPA reduction-in-force plan causes concern about Ada research center
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it will eliminate the Office of Research and Development and reduce its ...
Maryland disputes EPA's claim of errors in wind energy project permit
In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, Amy Van Blarcom-Lackey, regional administrator for the Maryland ...
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This EPA research office safeguarded Americans’ health. Trump just eliminated it.
The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from pesticides to lead.
Tensions Are Increasing Between EPA and States Over Environmental Regulation
The resulting conflict is playing out in courtrooms, statehouses and regulatory agencies across the country. It’s grounded in constitutional questions of federal preemption, the commerce clause and ...