EPA

Uncovering environmental harms and crimes, and holding those responsible accountable, has never received enough priority. We need to correct that problem.

The Environmental Protection Agency can help protect millions of people who live near industrial facilities — but only if it works now to strengthen an important federal chemical policy.

Residents of northeastern Oklahoma still suffer from the toxic fallout of shuttered mines. 

Experts say the new administration can jumpstart climate protections by taking on rising methane emissions, but it won’t be easy or quick.

The Biden administration must focus on science and enforcement, reverse Trump deregulation efforts and reenergize EPA employment.

The EPA allowed polluters to stop monitoring or even preventing their emissions, and many states followed suit. Here’s what happened — and how to fix it.

A new book, The War on the EPA, tracks the history and importance of the government agency — and how efforts to undermine it began decades before Trump.

The White House has now quietly and ominously asked polluters to help identify new opportunities for deregulation.

The nongovernmental panel of experts found that particle pollution regulations aren’t protecting public health, but that's not the only worrying trend at EPA.

A database lets U.S. residents get quick information about water contaminants and health threats, but there are some bigger issues to consider, too.