This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public…
The neurological disease has been repeatedly linked to exposure to certain pesticides widely used on crops in the southeastern Texas borderlands
More than two months after jet fuel contaminated Piscataway Creek at Joint Base Andrews, it is still unclear how at least 22,000 gallons of the toxic liquid leaked from the sprawling air base, why it wasn’t caught sooner and where it may have gone.
ProPublica reports that the federal government was looking into violations of the Clean Water Act from Southern Coal and other affiliated mining operations controlled by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice and his family. In the past, the companies have been sued numerous times by state and federal authorities for failing to follow environmental laws, and racked up numerous pollution violations.…
Constitutional climate litigation seems to know no bounds.
In 1954, Time magazine published a short article about the University of Utah using beagles in research to determine the dangers of radioactive material over a lifetime.
At a kennel dubbed “Beagleville,” 450 dogs had been injected with graduated amounts of radioactive material, including plutonium and radium. “These elements accumulate in the bones and bombard tender cells with damaging alpha…
President Donald Trump said new regulatory rollbacks on chemical refrigerants will reduce the prices consumers pay for groceries and will not impact the environment. However, U.S. chemical, refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers said the changes will raise prices and his administration’s own projections show that greenhouse gas pollution will increase. The primary rollback, announced by…
At a virtual public comment hearing hosted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, a long line of environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements that utilities must follow in cleaning up toxic coal ash residue at hundreds of sites across the country at which coal was burned to produce […]
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The warning signs were years in the making. And yet, regulators failed to heed the writing on the wall, according to Dean Naujoks. An investigator with the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Naujoks spent three years documenting what he calls a […]
Record May Temps and Record EU Fines: €26 billion in fines on the way for Ireland. Solution? Scrap FF/FG LNG plans. Invest hard to make home retrofitting our public transport system fast, frequent and free.
Even if there is a complete implementation of a wide range of policies and plans across every sector, reductions would only get up to 25 per cent by 2030
The fight over data centers and their huge appetite for electricity has been a flashpoint for local governments nationwide, and now the fight is moving to Congress where bills are under debate, the White House has weighed in and the EPA is proposing changes.
The bill would reduce funding for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This past Sunday, I found myself walking across the snowless ski runs of Sierra-at-Tahoe in California, which sits on public land in the El Dorado National Forest. I had come to chase down a rumor. Numerous Tahoe-area residents had told me the Forest Service’s plan to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate—part of the agency’s forest […]
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A yearslong court battle over the 21.7 million tons of coal ash sitting in one of Alabama’s most ecologically sensitive areas will continue after an appeals court ruling handed down Monday. The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit by Alabama-based environmental group Mobile Baykeeper challenging Alabama Power’s plans to leave the […]
The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.
After eliminating the electric vehicle tax credit, rolling back fuel economy standards and blocking California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules, the Trump administration is now citing slowed electric vehicle growth as its rationale for loosening automobile air pollution standards. In a rulemaking proposal released Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to delay the…
The state routinely tests 32 private wells near the Lincoln Park Superfund site, but activists are worried about hidden springs and other unknown groundwater pathways near the Cotter site
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Our water sources are compromised.
A 35-page booklet distributed in a public meeting by the Tennessee Valley Authority about coal ash is filled with “lies” and misleading information, according to coal ash researchers. The booklet, titled “Know the Facts: Coal Ash,” did not include any TVA branding or author information, but the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy says TVA employees […]
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-fired power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, mercury, selenium, and lead—from coal ash waste landfills into U.S. waterways. In September 2025, Donald Trump’s EPA gave coal plant companies a pass by delaying enforcement of long-overdue wastewater protections from…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed changes Monday that would allow gas power plants, data centers and factories to begin construction on non-polluting components such as piping, wiring, cement pads and other support structures before obtaining air-emission permits. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a news release that the “proposal works to provide solutions […]
New Jersey is home to nearly 9 percent of the nation’s Superfund sites—more than any other state. They range from chemical plants with toxic byproducts leached into the soil, to oil-filled lagoons, open fields rife with septic waste and rivers polluted with toxic chemicals. Many have remained contaminated for decades. In January, President Donald Trump […]
The EPA has also implemented an “advance notice” policy for most of its public-facing research.
The National Park Service said the dump of debris, between the fourth and ninth holes, does not exceed environmental limits. Opponents disagree.
Despite fewer nominations and winners than usual, the Partnership for Public Service is again highlighting excellence in public service with the 2026 Sammies.
Environmental Protection Agency employees who were suspended last year after signing a letter criticizing Trump administration leadership at the agency are pushing forward with more than a dozen claims of unlawful agency retaliation.
“Many more” complaints are expected at the Office of Special Counsel “promptly,” after suspensions and firings of EPA employees who signed a dissent letter.