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WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it is cutting the size of its workforce by at least 23% and closing its scientific research office as part of President Donald Trump's broad effort to downsize the ...
Water vapor rises from one of three stacks of a power station that stand above a tree line in winter. Water vapor rises from the stacks of a coal-fired power plant in southern Ohio in December 2025. The US Environmental Protection Agency plans to continue ...
TROY, Ohio (WDTN) — The US Environmental Protection Agency has started a months-long project in Miami County. According to the US EPA, crews have started cleaning up soil at the East Troy Contaminated Aquifer Superfund Site in Troy,
The proposal would sharply narrow which wetlands and streams are protected. The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed redefining key words in the Clean Water Act that would limit protections for wetlands. In a release on Monday, the proposal ...
(Reuters) -The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it approved 14 requests from small refineries for full or partial exemptions to the nation's biofuel blending mandates, drawing criticism from a top U.S. biofuel trade group. The decisions ...
A pile of plastic sewage pipes. Some chemical components of polyvinyl chloride sewage pipes are subject to chemical regulations under the US Toxic Substances Control Act. The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes to the act that will ...
The EPA plans to claw back all $7 billion of grants made available through the Biden-era Solar For All program, according to reporting by The New York Times. Solar for All is a funding program launched by the EPA in June 2023. The goal of the program is to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday approved most of its backlog of requests by small oil refineries for biofuel law exemptions, raising concerns among biofuels advocates over a potential hit to demand. The approvals ...
The US Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it was moving ahead with plans to ax its workforce by more than 3,700 employees, as part of sweeping government cuts under President Donald Trump's second term. In January, the federal agency tasked with ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions - an effort the agency said was burdensome to business, but which ...
The agency proposed scaling back Clean Air Act Section 111 and Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), undoing Biden-era 2024 rules and easing emissions limits for coal and gas plants. While coal’s role is shrinking, the rollback signals minimal ...
The government's repeal of 2009 Obama-era legislation should mean no more start-stop