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‘FAKE NEWS’: EPA Sets the Record Straight as Former Staff Say Changes Put ‘People at Risk’

The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing back after former officials claimed that retiring a controversial risk analysis program will put Americans at risk for toxic exposure...

Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Helped Bring About Major EPA Deregulation

EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi issued a memo on April 27 ending the 1985 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) method of classifying hazardous chemicals. Numerous stake...

EPA responds to documents that suggest the agency knew more about risks to public health impact

ROSELAND &amp;mdash; Last week, we told you about EPA documents obtained by Steve Middendorp, a reporter for the HighWire, through a Freedom of Information Act request.The document...

EPA to Allow Power Plants to Bulldoze Through Pollution Protections

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would allow data centers, power plants, and industrial facilities to begin construction on “non-emitting”...

EPA ‘strategy’ proposes to strike enforceable PFAS standards

Reprinted with permission from CoastalReview.org The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead with plans to strike down the nation’s first-ever health standards for che...

EPA: Ireland meets 2024 ammonia reduction target with help of LESS

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its assessment of five key air pollutants which impact air quality, health and the environment for 2024. The pollutants are:...

“Potomac Conservancy Responds to EPA’s Potomac Recovery Announcement” also “DC Water Provides Next Steps in Environmenta...

photo by wolfpackWX From the Potomac Conservancy: “Potomac Conservancy urges caution following the US Environmental Protection Agency’s May 6, 2026 pronouncement that the agency ha...

EPA Moves to Designate Microplastics and Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants in Drinking Water

April 03, 2026 | Source: The Guardian | by Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on Thursday to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list o...

EPA Includes Microplastics on Draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List

On April 2, 2026, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the EPA has proposed to include micro...

EPA Moves To Designate Microplastics, Pharmaceuticals As Contaminants In Drinking Water

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has been under pressure for months to further crack down on environmental contaminants.

Restore Earth Day's Legacy

This Earth Day arrives at a sobering moment as the EPA continues to erase the safeguards it was created to uphold. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was estab...

California Environmental Law &amp; Policy Update 5.15.26

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday proposed allowing data centers, power plants, and other industrial facilities to begin certain construction work before obt...

California Environmental Law &amp; Policy Update 5.22.26

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday proposed two rules rolling back certain regulations limiting per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) levels under the Sa...

EPA Publishes Updated Drinking Water Contaminant List

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published its proposed Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6) for drinking water, adding per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (P...

EPA Announces Draft Contaminant Candidate List, Which Includes PFAS, Microplastics, and Pharmaceuticals

On April 02, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (CCL 6). The CCL is a list of contaminants that are currently not...

Trump EPA Downplays Local Emissions in Proposed Repeal

The EPA on Tuesday proposed rescinding a Biden-era ruling to reclassify Utah’s Wasatch Front from “serious” nonattainment of the 2015 ozone standards to mere “moderate” nonattainme...

EPA to Allow More Coal Plants Off the Hook for Toxic Waste Dumped in U.S. Waterways

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rolling back protections that stop coal-fired power plants from dumping toxic wastewater—including arsenic, m...

EPA Releases Draft Risk Evaluations, Draft Hazard Assessments, and Supporting Documents for Four Chemicals

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 10, 2026, that it is advancing its review of four chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) — 1,3,4,...

Climate Power: Earth Day reality: Trump’s EPA decimates environmental protections while energy costs skyrocket

Madison, WI – Over the past year, Trump’s EPA has rolled back protections and canceled crucial funding for communities across Wisconsin. These actions threaten Wisconsinites’ acces...

Bold New HHS/EPA Move: Cleaner Water Free of Microplastics and Drugs

EPA Announces Draft Fungicide Strategy

In April 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released a draft version of its Fungicide Strategy, the most recent move in...

EPA Scales Back Limits on PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water

US Environmental Protection Agency wants to maintain legally enforceable limits on the most-studied types of "forever" chemicals known as PFAS but would roll back standards establi...

Restore Earth Day’s Legacy

Click to expand Image Smoke billows over the Mississippi River in Louisiana’s Cancer All...

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water

Proposal, a win for RFK Jr’s Maha movement, is a ‘first step’ toward tackling plastic pollution, advocates sayThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on Thursday to incl...