Some restrictions prevent loosening of existing environmental standards for clean air and water. Other rules can be changed – though only through a challenging and multistep democratic process.

Residents and environmental advocates hope to find allies to tackle the issues among the new Dallas City Council that will be ...

President Trump's Justice Department ended an agreement to address raw sewage in Alabama's Black Belt as part of a move to ...

Eastman Chemical Co. has requested a “presidential exemption” from a federal toxic pollution rule affecting the company’s ...

The Ministry of Health welcomed representatives from the Caribbean Public Health Agency [CARPHA] to Bermuda as “part of a ...

Federal employees in Philadelphia are dealing with increased work loads, returning to the office full-time, and weighing ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said he can "absolutely" guarantee the deregulatory actions announced last month won't have an adverse impact on people and the environment.

Indigenous communities have taken steps to prohibit uranium mining and transportation on their lands due to the history of contamination, illness and death.

Of 345 water systems in eight Northeast Pennsylvania counties, only one – Hazleton’s – fluoridates its drinking water, ...

An initiative between the Iowa Environmental Council and the Harkin Institute will explore the relationship between environmental risk factors and cancer rates in Iowa. The initiative will combine ...

We who live here know that protection of Lake Erie and its watershed is key to tourism and recreation and the economic ...

The California Environmental Quality Act protects everybody. We must stop attempts by pro-developer lobbyists to chip away at ...