The Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era mileage standards marks a win for Americans who like their SUVs and pickup trucks

The Trump administration says it will forgo a sweeping range of public health and environmental enforcement during the coronavirus outbreak.

When the top EPA official overseeing its WaterSense program first heard President Donald Trump’s rant about toilets that must be flushed a dozen times and modern faucets that only provide drips of water, she was at a loss for words, NBC News reports.

In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of commercial projects by cutting back federal review of their impact on the environment. Trump’s proposal calls for greatly narrowing the scope of the half-century-old National Environmental Policy Act, which was signed by President Richard...

One household is dealing with twice the stress of the government shutdown — both husband and wife work for the federal government. NBC 5 Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski shares their story.

The Environmental Protection Agency hit a 30-year low in 2018 in the number of pollution cases it referred for criminal prosecution, Justice Department data show. EPA said in a statement that it is directing “its resources to the most significant and impactful cases.” But the 166 cases referred for prosecution in the last fiscal year is the lowest number since...

Federal workers in Boston are preparing to flock to Post Office Square on Friday to protest the ongoing government shutdown. Approximately 800,000 federal workers in the U.S. are affected by the government shutdown, which began Dec. 22 after President Donald Trump and House Democrats failed to come to an agreement on funding for Trump’s long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico...

Six groups are sharing $250,000 in funding for innovative proposals to extract phosphorus from soils as Vermont tries to reduce the polluted runoff that leads to toxic algae blooms in Lake Champlain.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at overturning environmental regulations and reviving the coal industry. Trump also railed against a so-called “War on Coal” as well as general federal regulations in his speech prior to signing the order, promising to strike down regulations in every industry by the “thousands.”

A study that measures the human toll of air pollution from global manufacturing and trade shows how buying goods made far away can lead to premature deaths both there and close to home. More than 750,000 people die prematurely from dirty air every year that is generated by making goods in one location that will be sold elsewhere, about one-fifth...

While serving as Oklahoma’s attorney general, new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt coordinated closely with fossil-fuel companies and special interest groups working to undermine federal efforts to curb planet-warming carbon emissions, newly released emails show....
More than 7,500 pages were released under court order Tuesday evening after an Oklahoma judge ruled that Pruitt had been illegally withholding his correspondence, which...

For the first time since leaving her post at the Environmental Protection Agency, former Administrator Gina McCarthy is talking about the future of science and environmental policy in the Trump Administration.

For the first time since leaving her post at the Environmental Protection Agency, former Administrator Gina McCarthy is talking about the future of science and environmental policy in the Trump Administration.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at overturning environmental regulations and reviving the coal industry. Trump also railed against a so-called “War on Coal” as well as general federal regulations in his speech prior to signing the order, promising to strike down regulations in every industry by the “thousands.”