EPA News
EPA Rule Would Ban Asbestos Still in Use
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of ...
EPA Power to Curb Carbon Emissions Questioned by Supreme Court
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government's authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a case that ...
Risk Alerts: Apple AirTags, Pollutants
Apple's AirTags are marketed as "an easy way to keep track of your stuff." But the trackers have also been linked to criminal activity such as stalking and car theft. The discs are meant to be ...
Deadly Soot Levels Unchecked as Big Oil, EPA Spar Over Regs
A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S. oil industry and federal environmental officials over how to measure it, ...
GE’s ‘Incomplete’ Hudson River Cleanup Leading to New York Lawsuit Against the EPA
New York state officials plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allowing General Electric Co to stop clearing the Hudson River of PCB contamination before the cleanup work was ...
EPA Orders Cleanup for Superfund Site Flooded by Harvey
The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread ...
EPA Removed Waste at Texas Toxic Sites in Harvey Response Efforts
The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of "unidentified, potentially hazardous material'' from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month ...
Ex-EPA Transition Head: U.S. Will Change Course on Climate Policy
The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed U.S. President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...