Zeldin announced that he intends to reconsider more than a dozen core EPA rules and regulations, including those pertaining to emissions standards for vehicles, pollution from power plants and the ...

Ting Shen/AFP The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to target more than two dozen rules and policies in what the agency called the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described it as ... Amending federal rules and regulations is different — changes are likely to be felt over a much longer time horizon.. That's because the ...

Without the regulations, experts say, the U.S. could experience levels of air pollution seen in countries such as India, China or Saudi Arabia, exacerbating health issues for Americans.

(Jesse Costa/WBUR) In 2024, the Biden administration EPA rolled out the first federal regulations for PFAS in drinking water. The rules limited the two most common PFAS chemicals — PFOA and PFOS ...

Zeldin is expected to take steps to undo a key scientific finding from 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health. The finding underpins all of the EPA's greenhouse-gas regulations.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters is shown in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2025. Bonnie Cash/UPI via Shutterstock Changes to the rules and regulations announced Wednesday ...

The EPA didn't provide details about what it wants to do with the regulations — whether it will try to weaken them or eliminate them entirely. In most cases, the agency said it is reconsidering ...

The EPA said in an email to NPR that it doesn't have additional information to share about its plans for changing or repealing environmental regulations. "We are driving a dagger straight into the ...