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 ...

The EPA's previous rulemaking on renewable biofuels volume obligations finalized total federal volumes at 20.94 billion gallons in 2023, 21.54 billion gallons in 2024 and 22.33 billion gallons in ...

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 ...