Most states west of the Rocky Mountains contain areas that fail to meet new pollution standards for microscopic particles that can cause breathing problems for children and the elderly, federal officials said.
More than 100 million people living in 46 metro areas are breathing air that has gotten too full of soot on some days, and now those cities have to clean up their air, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.
The nation's farms no longer have to report to authorities the toxic, smelly fumes released from manure.
Companies violating environmental laws will spend a record $11.8 billion to reduce pollution and they paid more in penalties over the last year than they have since the first year of the Bush administration, according to the latest government statistics.
The Environmental Protection Agency, rejecting pleas from state governors and environmental groups, signed off Tuesday on making it easier to dump mountaintop mining waste near rivers and streams.
Though I didn’t make a formal announcement or send out a mass e-mail, this year I officially decided to kick a couple of bad eco-habits. Plastic grocery bags were first on the list.
Fresh drinking water makes up just one percent of the Earth — a tiny number when you consider that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that the average American household of four uses about 146,000 gallons of water annually (that's the equivalent of 100 gallons per day per person).
It’s not easy going "green," especially for car shoppers looking to buy a new set of eco-friendly wheels. How do you sort among the various ratings and specifications to determine which new cars are the cleanest?
Accounting practices at the Environmental Protection Agency have helped mask how much the Bush administration has slashed penalties against polluters, according to congressional investigators.
Three decades after removing lead from gasoline, the Environmental Protection Agency is slashing the amount of the toxic metal that will be allowed in the nation's air by 90 percent.
The Environmental Protection Agency is failing to stem the pollution washing into waterways from cities and suburbs, the National Academy of Sciences reported Wednesday.
The Environmental Protection Agency killed a federal plan nearly seven decades-in-the-making to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi River Delta.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to cut the federal ethanol mandate in half for a year.
Five states intend to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it does not act soon to reduce pollution from ships, aircraft and off-road vehicles.
Four Democratic senators called Tuesday for Stephen Johnson to resign as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to begin an investigation into whether he lied in testimony to a Senate committee.
A text of the e-mail warning the Environmental Protection Agency's pollution enforcement officials not to talk directly to congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general. The recipients and people copied in are managers in EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. The author of the e-mail is Robbi Farrell, chief of staff in the enforcement office.
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its pollution enforcement officials not to talk with congressional investigators, reporters and even the agency's own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson has declined to explain before Congress how a conclusion he made last year that global warming put the public in danger could lead to a decision not to regulate greenhouse gases.
The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to stop the use of the pesticide carbofuran on all food crops, including those that are imported.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday put off a decision on Texas' request to temporarily lower ethanol requirements for gasoline, a change Gov. Rick Perry says is needed to rein in corn prices.
The Environmental Protection Agency wants to make sure curbing global warming doesn't contaminate drinking water.
The Bush administration didn't pursue hundreds of potential water pollution cases after a 2006 Supreme Court decision that restricted the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate seasonal streams and wetlands.
A Florida environmental group sued the Bush administration Friday over a recent decision to allow water to be transferred without a permit.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.
Environmentalists took steps on Wednesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to compel states to clean up the haze plaguing the nation's parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a Bush administration rule to reduce air pollution from power plants and help states downwind from the facilities meet federal clean air standards.
"The Environmental Protection Agency reversed course on two of its rules that had been in the works. But we were curious why the agency chose to abandon these two when there are still others in various stages of the rulemaking process."
There have been a slew of stories about the EPA and the FDA lately. I have decided to bring them together in one place for your consideration. Be sure to check the dates on the stories!! Take a look and then tell me what's really going on here....
Why has the EPA been killing you with a smile? The answer is here.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency routinely allows companies to keep new information about their chemicals secret, including compounds that have been shown to cause cancer and respiratory problems, the Journal Sentinel has found.
During her three-year tenure as New Jersey's chief environmental regulator, Lisa Jackson, named Monday by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Environmental Protection Agency, frequently found herself in the crossfire.
EPA illegally says it has no duty to regulate carbon emissions.
The omega-3 fatty acid, EPA, was particularly effective in reducing inflammation in cultured cells taken from asthmatic patients.
I have worked in some pretty moldy schools. I often wondered if EPA did not just 'ignore' schools in testing working conditions. I always was good for my fall and spring colds/allergic reactions, and I still swear that was from the mold. Hopefully this will come to fruition!
So our next EPA Administrator was taken to task by the Bush administration for failing to protect the environment...
New Jersey greens are dramatically divided over the nomination of Lisa Jackson, the head of that state's Department of Environmental Protection, to head Barack Obama's EPA.
The Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture have no plan to work together in the event of a food-borne disease outbreak or terrorist attack. The Department of Defense's security clearance process takes so long it jeopardizes classified information.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six weeks before leaving office, the Bush administration is giving up on an effort to ease restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants, a key plank of its original energy agenda and one that put the president at odds with environmentalists his enti …
The track record compiled by Lisa P. Jackson as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection should disqualify her from serving as the next head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, says Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
President-elect Barack Obama is set to nominate New Jersey's Lisa P. Jackson, Gov. Corzine's chief of staff and for nearly three years his top environmental official, to lead the federal government's environmental protection efforts, according to published reports.
The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee pledged Tuesday to "do what I have to do" to ensure that the government monitors the air for toxic chemicals outside schools across the nation.
A Philadelphia Inquirer profile of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson this weekend reveals that the chief steward of our environmental protection is unwilling — or unable — to separate religion from science.
A black woman from New Orleans and the offspring of an aristocratic family from New Jersey would seem initially to have little in common.
Obama is close to picking appointees to run the Interior and Energy departments and EPA amid debate on naming an energy panel or climate czar.
The spirit of Scrooge is alive and well. In a midnight raid on the nation's health, the Lame W. Duck administration, sneaks out regulations aimed at turning us back into a land of Dickensian smog and tattered children. See if you can live with:
For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if the federal government decides to charge fees for air-polluting animals. The American Farm Bureau Federation said, based on federal agriculture department figures, it would require far …
This lunacy started in Europe, with EU and UN bureaucrats seeking to dictate what we eat.
Among the Bush administration's final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from federal regulation.
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday approved a last-minute rule change by the Bush administration that will allow coal companies to bury streams under the rocks leftover from mining.
Legislation designed to address global warming failed in Congress this year, largely due to concerns about its high costs and adverse impact on an already weakening economy.