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. history." The EPA ...

Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, talks with reporters on Feb. 18. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images file. March 12, 2025, 7:16 PM EDT.

In this series, NPR takes readers behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Neela Banerjee is NPR's chief climate editor. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced plans to ...