EPA workers silenced as agency cancels hundreds of grants
EPA staffers have been told they are prohibited from communicating with grantee partners they are supposed to monitor, according to multiple sources inside the agency.
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‘Cartoon villainy’: Former regulators say EPA’s planned rollbacks would reverse 50 years of environmental progress
The former regulators' warning comes in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement to roll back dozens of air and water protections.
EPA says it's cutting back on 'waters of the United States' rules ag interests oppose
After a U.S. Supreme Court decision narrowing wetland protections, the EPA says it will revamp rules many farmers have long opposed.
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EPA Will Try Again on Waters of the United States Rule
President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency plans to adjust the definition of which waters the federal ...
Environmental protection laws still apply even under Trump’s national energy emergency − here’s why
President Trump’s national energy emergency declaration does not qualify as an emergency that would exempt energy projects ...
EPA launches full assault on environmental protection
Congress has never given the EPA explicit instruction to cut greenhouse gases from power plants or motor vehicles, but the agency has relied on the power it was given in the 1970 Clean Air Act to set ...
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EPA to review ‘waters of the United States’ with the goal of reducing red tape and permitting costs
Farmers, landowners and businesses have had to obtain costly federal permits or faced fines for failing to gain those permits for activities on areas defined as "waters of the United States," even on ...
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Hazardous Waste Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Camden, New Jersey Drum Reconditioner Enter into Consent Agreement
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Patrick J. Kelly Drums, Inc. (“PJKD”) entered into a February 27th Consent Agreement ...