The Latest Breaking News from EPA

The slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives has just voted to give itself a streamlined way to fire civil servants and shut down federal programs it doesn’t like – outside the standard process of review and debate.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to release a draft regulation limiting two fluorinated chemicals, known by the abbreviations PFOA and PFOS, in drinking water. These chemicals are two types of PFAS, a broad class of substances often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they are very persistent in…

CHICAGO — When it comes to lung-damaging smog, Chicago and the rest of Cook County are the nation’s worst neighbors.

An environmental war is waging again in Tasmania as a clean energy company fights to save its $1.6-billion wind farm project, while opponents say "half-baked" EPA conditions don't go far enough.

A proposed $100 million surf park in Perth clears a major planning hurdle, as Western Australia's environmental watchdog rules it does not require further assessment.

The 212-car train that derailed outside of Springfield, Ohio, on Saturday was not carrying any toxic materials, several state and local agencies confirmed. The EPA will stay on site for cleanup.

Newcrest Mining says reports of heavy metal contamination do not match its monitoring data from Cadia goldmine near Orange

"EPA is finally treating this health crisis for what it is — an emergency"

The all-electric Subaru Solterra model noted 347 sales in February in the United States, which is slightly less than in January.

People living near the chemical disaster are wary of contamination, and even across the state line Pennsylvanians are worried

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned of floods threatening one-quarter of the Internally displaced persons' sites in Yemen. There are more than half a million individuals in these camps. Climate change and civil turbulences have widely impacted food item prices…