Tag: Clean Air Act

The EPA says it did not review the exemptions, and environmental groups have sued over those covering chemical plants.

A coalition of attorneys general, governors and mayors asked the D.C. Circuit to restore the 2024 standards, which the EPA put at billion in avoided costs when it repealed them.

The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.

For decades, regular citizens and advocacy groups have filed suits that forced companies and the federal government to clean up the environment. Trump officials have moved to limit that power.

Judge sets a February 2027 deadline for the agency to name communities breathing unhealthy fine-particle pollution, a step advocates say opens the path to cleaner air for tens of millions.

Lawmakers say Trump administration policy could allow agency to sideline public health gains when weighing industry costs under the Clean Air Act.

Rollback targets legal basis for greenhouse gas limits as environmental and public health groups prepare lawsuits.

Internal documents show the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning decades of public health accounting in favor of business compliance costs.

From coal ash delays to dicamba reapproval, Trump’s EPA faces backlash for gutting public health safeguards and empowering polluters.