I’m wondering why we even have an Environmental Protection Agency. If protecting human life is not the main goal of the EPA, ...

Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more ...

The benefits of environmental protection, measured in terms of advancing public health and the economy, outweigh the costs associated with implementing and enforcing environmental regulations, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is reopening its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles rules as well as its Heavy-Duty Nitrous Oxide rule as part of a sweeping review of ...

Banner for the CT Environmental Rights Amendment on the steps of the Old State House Credit: Jan Ellen Sipegel / CT Mirror The Supreme Court has been undermining environmental regulations at the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicated this week that it will steer its environmental enforcement officers away from energy companies. The EPA can pursue civil or criminal cases against ...

Newtown's Nettleton Preserve is near a property under consideration for a large housing development. Credit: Davis Dunavin / WSHU News This is the third of a five-part series exploring issues ...

The Houston Health Department was awarded a $20 million grant by the Environmental Protection Agency to boost energy resilience in the Greater Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The multi-million dollar ...

Mikie Sherrill has picked Potosnak to lead the Department of Environmental Protection, a move that would put an environmental ...

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Congressional Democrats are calling for Environmental Protection Agency ...

Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill has chosen Ed Potosnak to be the next commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental ...