Tag: EPA

The EPA bans two carcinogenic chemicals after decades of advocacy, but political and industrial challenges loom.

Formaldehyde threatens everyone as it pollutes the air we all breathe and leaks from products long after they enter our homes. It is virtually everywhere.

“The best-case scenario is that the EPA will lose four years in the fight for the planet. The worst-case scenario should send a shudder down your spine.”

Zeldin is part of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank Dunn founded that pushes anti-climate policies.

The fossil fuel industry filed lawsuits with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit requesting the court block the program and the Supreme Court put the EPA's new rule on hold until it was settled in court.

The senators urged EPA Administrator Michael Regan to take decisive action to protect public health, noting that over 70 countries have already banned paraquat due to its known dangers.

The investment will support approximately 40,000 union jobs while reducing pollution and combating the climate crisis, a press release from the White House said.

The EPA will be required to take regulatory action to restrict or eliminate the risk by law.

After the scientists pushed back, they received negative performance reviews and three of them were removed from their positions in the EPA’s division of new chemicals and reassigned to jobs elsewhere in the agency.

North Carolina, New Jersey and New Mexico petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating PFAS “forever chemical” air emissions.