EPA
Recent Stories
Rainforest Action Network decides enough is enough with Obama's broken promises on mountaintop mining and stages dramatic protest in front of the EPA.
In 1971, the EPA hired more than 100 freelance photographers who shot thousands of pictures documenting life, the environment and the people in between.
EPA had exempted refineries and chemical plants from penalties for exceeding limits during start-up, shutdown and malfunction.
New threshold would exempt hospitals, big buildings, and schools, but not heavy industry like coal-burning power plants.
Move gives Congress more time to develop ways to reduce carbon pollution and avoid a legal battle over whether EPA has the authority to regulate emissions.
Lawmakers say agency lacks power to restrict greenhouse gases from stationary sources such as power plants, factories and mines.
Some researchers find fault with dust, but it turns out dust can fertilize land and the ocean, aiding some types of sea life.
Classifying as hazardous waste would cost jobs, cause more environmental harm, Manchin says.
One employee at the Environmental Protection Agency describes what it's like to work in a green building.
Feds hear mothers' stories of abnormally high number of birth defects.
