The Latest Breaking News from EPA

Chevy Corvette Spied With Strange Exhaust, Could Be New 500-HP Model

Rumors of a more powerful Corvette Stingray have been circling around.

Motor1 · Dec 31, 2022

Biden Administration Finalizes New WOTUS Definition for the New Year

The EPA and Army Corps have finalized a revised definition of "waters of the United States," which defines the scope of federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

Reason · Dec 30, 2022

The EPA finalizes a water-protection rule that repeals Trump-era changes

The Biden administration finalized regulations that protect small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.

WEKU · Dec 30, 2022

EPA finalizes water rule that repeals Trump-era changes

President Joe Biden’s administration has finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2022

Five ways the US Supreme Court reshaped policy in 2022

The court’s new conservative majority issued rulings over the past year on abortion, gun rights, religion and more.

Al Jazeera · Dec 30, 2022

EPA gives Sims a passing grade on air; expert critic says testing is flawed

A UIC chemist calls the analysis from air monitoring around Sims Metal Management problematic, providing “no useful information for many important pollutants.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 28, 2022

3M to stop making ‘forever chemicals’

Legal experts estimate future PFAS litigation could cost the company more than $30 billion

Salon · Dec 27, 2022

Waffle pod grant makes mockery of NSW government single-use plastic ban, say Greens

Questions are being raised about a $640,000 grant to make polystyrene waffle pods after the same material was banned under the Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act 2021.

ABC News · Dec 25, 2022

Hell freezes over during US bomb cyclone

Hell - a small town in Michigan - quite literally froze over after local temperatures dropped to -10C

The Independent UK · Dec 25, 2022

Iraqi Prime Minister Prepares Dissolution of De-Baathification Commission

Iraqi government request to transfer the files and data of the Accountability and Justice Commission to the judiciary in preparation for ending its work sparked a sharp political debate among the poles of the Shiite Coordination Framework. The Commission is an extension of an institutional body known as the “de-Baathification”…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 24, 2022