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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has launched “the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” involving more than 30 ...
Black communities brace for fallout after Trump revokes core safeguard that outlined pollution’s impact on nature and humans.
The group NH Healthy Climate successfully applied for a grant to work on rural flood mitigation, but the EPA is withholding funding for the program.
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 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 ...
The EPA’s attempts to advance environmental justice amounted to “racial engineering,” they argued, and represented an overextension of its authorities.
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 ...
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.