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![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
![A coal ash pond next to a body of water in foreground. A coal plant in the background and behind it the skyline of the city of Richmond, Virginia.]()
Power companies would rather not clean their toxic messes. Trump’s EPA is granting their wish.
Advocates fear the agency will “justify avoiding any enforcement whatsoever” of millions of tons of coal ash nationwide.
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The EPA wants to roll back a rule that’s essential for protecting you from chemical disasters
Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their political whims.
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![EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin]()
![EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin]()
‘Caught off guard’: EPA proposes to fire hundreds of scientists
“This is not designed to cut expenses, it's designed to destroy,” one official said.
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Gavin Newsom delayed his own ‘nation-leading’ plastic policy. Why?
Industry groups expressed concerns about California’s landmark plastic pollution law in the weeks before regulators were supposed to begin enforcing it.
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The end of the EPA’s fight to protect overpolluted communities
Two former EPA staffers on what the closure of the agency’s environmental justice offices means for the country and the "irony" of Trump’s agenda.
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![Smoke pours from a refinery smokestack, with gray-blue sky in background.]()
![Smoke pours from a refinery smokestack, with gray-blue sky in background.]()
Supreme Court declines to hear Republicans’ ‘Hail Mary’ effort to block climate lawsuits
The justices shrugged off a complaint described by legal experts as a “political stunt.”
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![Vapor gathering above a road from a pipeline leak]()
![Vapor gathering above a road from a pipeline leak]()
Efforts were underway to prevent CO2 pipeline leaks. The Trump administration quietly derailed them.
The proposed safety rules would have been the first.
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How a Trump effort to cut environmental red tape could backfire
The White House is revoking its own authority to oversee implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act — and leaving a bureaucratic mess in its wake.
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![View of the Wall Street bull statue, facing its head.]()
Big banks abandoned a voluntary climate alliance. Now, critics are calling for new laws.
Environmental groups say state and international policymakers must step up to stop fossil fuel financing.
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![a farmworker walks between rows of crops]()
![a farmworker walks between rows of crops]()
Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it.
Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse.
