The Latest Breaking News from EPA

The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing tighter limits on air emissions and new worker protections to reduce exposure to ethylene oxide, a colorless gas used to sterilize medical supplies and some food products that has been linked to cancer and other serious health conditions.

Rail cars from East Palestine derailment relocated to Pa. rail yard

An EPA proposal would cut releases of ethylene oxide, which is considered a carcinogen, by roughly 80% by targeting 86 medical sterilization sites across the U.S.

Multiple cars from the East Palestine train derailment have been relocated to a railyard in Conway in Beaver County.

No, it's not April 1, it's just stupid.

A coalition of environmental groups claims the EPA has failed for decades to update limits on the discharge of some dangerous chemicals into waterways. Most of the worst polluters are in Texas.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed Tuesday to limit the use of the chemical ethylene oxide after finding higher than expected cancer risk at facilities that use it to sterilize billions of medical devices each year

CHICAGO — Frustrated that U.S. oil refineries are still allowed to dump massive amounts of toxic chemicals and heavy metals into lakes and rivers, environmental groups are urging a federal court to order more stringent regulation of some of the nation’s biggest polluters.

Officials in southeastern Michigan were angry when a landfill and deep-injection wells near Detroit received contaminated soils and liquids from a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

The Biden administration will propose strict new automobile pollution limits this week that would require at least 54% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030, ramping up quickly to as high as 67% by 2032

When people think of electric vehicles, or EVs for short, they typically think of passenger cars, not commercial trucks or vans. But the volume of medium- and heavy-duty EVs is growing and recent decisions by federal and California regulators are sure to increase their numbers.