For those who fight for environmental justice, recent changes made to federal policy rolls back efforts to protect residents in neighborhoods long burdened by industrial pollution, as well as stalls ...

Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday will announce Lisa Garcia as the new commissioner of the city Department of Environmental ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies. The EPA can pursue civil or criminal cases against ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reopening its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles rules as well as its Heavy-Duty Nitrous Oxide rule as part of a sweeping review of ...

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Congressional Democrats are calling for Environmental Protection Agency ...

I’m wondering why we even have an Environmental Protection Agency. If protecting human life is not the main goal of the EPA, ...

The Houston Health Department was awarded a $20 million grant by the Environmental Protection Agency to boost energy resilience in the Greater Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The multi-million dollar ...

Newtown's Nettleton Preserve is near a property under consideration for a large housing development. Credit: Davis Dunavin / WSHU News This is the third of a five-part series exploring issues ...

LONG ISLAND-- Leaders in Nassau and Suffolk counties say they're hopeful that former Congressman Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will ...