The new standards are also part of President Joe Biden’s initiative to lower cancer rates in the United States. According to EPA assessments, about "104,000 people within about 6 miles of the ...

The U.S. environmental regulator said Thursday soil sampling for lead in two Pennsylvania towns near telecommunications cables indicate "no threats to the health of people nearby that would ...

After reviewing the risks of atrazine for more than 7 years, the US Environmental Protection Agency says the widely used herbicide can stay on the market with some new restrictions. EPA ...

Now, the EPA says it is denying all objections to its March 2017 decision, which allows the pesticide to be used on numerous food crops. Environmental and farmworker groups are not giving up.

It has been largely phased out in the United States. Last year, the Biden administration sought to finish the decades-long fight by banning chrysotile asbestos. At the time, the EPA called it a ...

The EPA previously tried to ban asbestos in most products under the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1989, but the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the ban could apply only to products ...