CLEVELAND, Ohio — A national environmental group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over air pollution rules for major industrial facilities in the Cleveland area, saying the agency ...

When the U.S. government shut down in late 2018, it furloughed nearly 600 Environmental Protection Agency pollution inspectors for more than a month. Those workers had to stop their work of monitoring ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning a rule that would strengthen limits on fine-particle pollution, a move scientists and experts say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths. On ...

For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's ...

As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to fund the federal government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block. But even before Congress ...

Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is slated to go before a Senate panel today to try and defend the indefensible: taking the nation’s environmental guardian off ...

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Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

New Department of Environmental Services chief Myra Reece speaks at news conference on Monday July 1, 2024. The DES replaces the Department of Health and Environmental Control’s environment division ...

The consequences of the Trump administration firing thousands of environmental employees from the federal government could range from worsened responses to pollution to less access at national parks, ...