The Clean Air Act was established in 1963 under Lyndon Johnson, and has been strengthened multiple times since. Richard Nixon ...

Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum-security Mexican prison on through a 5,000-foot tunnel.

The administration has devised a novel strategy that could violate separation of powers. "Impressive, but it's also illegal," ...

Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to shrink the workforce as he tries to free the agency from the statutory obligation to regulate climate pollution.

During the early 1970s, the air in many American cities was … brown. Pollution muddied clear skies and sickened people across ...

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin is canceling a year-old museum dedicated to the EPA's history — citing its $315-per-visitor cost to operate.

In this week's Current Climate newsletter, EPA's radical break with Republican history; a climate-friendly digital bank’s troubled tale; decarbonization challenges ahead ...

Officials who led the EPA under three past presidents said the current administration is threatening both environmental protection and economic growth.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced what it called the ‘biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.’ Administrator Lee Zeldin’s proposals include a call to upend the basis for the ...

What does the EPA do? The Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and the environment. The agency was first formed in 1970 under former President Richard Nixon.

Cutting EPA’s staff to around 5,000 employees would put the agency close to the numbers it had when it was created by President Richard Nixon. EPA started with about 4,000 employees in 1970.

Since President Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970, the U.S. population has grown by 62% and its gross domestic product has more than quadrupled.