What environmental agency firings could mean for energy, pollution, national parks
The consequences of the Trump administration firing thousands of environmental employees from the federal government could ...
Grist on MSN6d
Trump’s push for ‘efficiency’ may destroy the EPA. What does that mean for you?
Staffers that spoke to Grist under the condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs blamed new EPA administrator, Lee ...
Nature5d
‘Targeted and belittled’: scientists at US environmental agency speak out as layoffs begin
President Donald Trump and his team view the Environmental Protection Agency as a threat to US prosperity. Workers have been ...
The Hill4d
EPA fires nearly 400 workers after OPM order
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fired nearly 400 employees after a directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The EPA told The Hill in a written statement that it has ...
Indiatimes2d
EPA terminates nearly 400 workers
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal govt this week spurred by Elon Musk's Department of Government ...
EPA Defends Biden Chemical Rule Revising a Trump-era Regulation
The EPA is rejecting industry and labor challenges to a rule issued last year describing how the agency determines whether ...
Fox News5d
EPA administrator Zeldin demands return of $20B in taxpayer money wasted by Biden administration
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday that his team has located $20 billion in tax dollars that the Biden administration purposely wasted. "An extremely ...
Bloomberg L.P.4d
EPA Terminates Nearly 400 Workers Amid US Government Purge
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it had fired 388 workers, part of a wave of terminations across the federal government this week spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...
As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...
Civil Eats6d
Is There Enough Evidence of Health Risks for the EPA to Ban Paraquat?
Thousands of lawsuits cite studies linking paraquat to Parkinson’s disease. The EPA says the evidence doesn't warrant a ban ...
NBC New York4d
EPA chief seeks return of $20 billion in clean-energy grants awarded by Biden
In a major reversal, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency said he will try to rescind ... Administrator Lee Zeldin said the EPA would revoke contracts for a still-emerging ...
Bill to repeal fluoridation of drinking water fails in Senate committee following tie vote
A bill that would have repealed a state law mandating the fluoridation of drinking water in Arkansas failed to pass in a ...