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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In their model, the team found the coal regulations led to large emissions reductions because they spurred the early retirement of coal plants that might otherwise operate well past 2039. In fact ...

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 ...

That conclusion compelled the EPA to formulate regulations to limit the emission of greenhouse gases from power plants. Obama's EPA did just that, but came late enough to still be tied up in ...

(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 ...

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 ...