While the president-elect promises clean air and water, climate and equity take a back seat to fossil fuel excavation.

Other suspected candidates were former EPA official Mandy Gunasekara, ex-EPA regional administrator for Texas Anne Austin, and former Trump ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands. North Dakota Gov.

President-elect Donald Trump named Rep. Elise Stefanik as his U.N. ambassador, Tom Homan as border czar and former Rep. Lee Zeldin as his choice for EPA administrator. Stephen Miller was expected to ...

Despite the nearly half-century old ban on lead paint, it remains in an estimated 31 million homes built before 1978, including 3.8 million homes where children under 6 live, an EPA official said ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced the finalized version of a federal rule tightening standards for exposure to lead paint dust. The rule, which finalizes a proposal issued last June ...

Donald Trump said he would staff his second White House differently. His early selections make clear how much loyalty matters ...

THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- In a move that further toughens safety standards for lead paint dust, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced the finalization of a ...

"Too often our children, the most vulnerable residents of already overburdened communities, are the most profoundly impacted by the toxic legacy of lead-based paint," EPA Administrator Michael ...

former senior EPA official in the Obama Administration, and legal advisor to the Center for Environmental Health, one of the petitioners with PEER. “EPA has all the evidence it needs to justify this ...

an environmental scientist and former EPA official who retired after 33 years at the agency in August 2017. “We had assumed,” she continued, “that he would just focus on killing the climate ...

The Supreme Court appeared ready in oral arguments Wednesday to restrict the EPA’s ability to set broad water quality standards for sewage and other systems as part of a challenge from San Franc ...