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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched “the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” involving more than 30 environmental protection rules. He says it will result in “the Great American ...
The president’s rollbacks and funding cuts are affecting your food, water, and air — even if you don’t realize it.
A coalition of nonprofits, tribes, and local governments is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the ...
Local clean air advocates say a move by the Trump administration to undermine regulations that limit climate pollution will ...
The EPA is asking for public input on how it should spend more than $13 billion on climate change and "environmental justice," and will take comments through mid-January.
The EPA’s attempts to advance environmental justice amounted to “racial engineering,” they argued, and represented an overextension of its authorities.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, which has a mission of protecting public health and natural resources “ consistent with sustainable economic development,” notified EPA in an Oct. 20 ...
Having now spearheaded the EPA’s environmental justice efforts under three different presidential administrations, Tejada sat down with Grist for a 30-minute interview to discuss implementing ...
More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...
EPA administrator vows to restore environmental justice in vulnerable communities: "These people have been ignored for decades" By Tori B. Powell January 27, 2022 / 9:42 PM EST / CBS News ...
Environmental justice's growing EPA footprint–slashed For many years, environmental justice work at EPA had been housed in the small Office of Environmental Justice, staffed by a few dozen people.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan, pictured here announcing the agency’s new Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights on Sept. 24, 2021, touted $2 billion in grants to address ...