The Environmental Protection Agency has told staff overseeing the country’s industrialized Midwest– a region plagued by a legacy of pollution– to stop enforcing violations against the fossil fuel ...

EPA employees put names to ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump More than 170 employees signed their names to the document, with more signing anonymously out of fear of ...

The EPA originally adopted its PFAS rule under the Biden administration in April 2024, setting limits on six types of chemicals. Limits on just two of those – PFOS and PFOA – will remain set ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, accompanied by Education Secretary Linda McMahon (R), speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30.

EPA will still need to maintain some staff to work on climate regulations. But it is working to drop greenhouse gases from its list of regulated pollutants by reconsidering a 2009 scientific ...