The Hill11d
EPA tells 1,000 employees they could be fired ‘immediately’
More than 1,000 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were notified last week that they may be subject to immediate firing, according to an email obtained by The Hill. The email ...
Roll Call8d
Democrats, seeking answers on cuts, turned away at EPA
Democratic members of Congress on Thursday unsuccessfully tried to meet with EPA officials over frozen funds and proposed cuts, warning that Elon Musk’s promised reductions could undermine the ...
CBS News8d
EPA rushes to meet Trump's deadline to clear toxic debris from Los Angeles area wildfire zones
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday allowed CBS News to accompany an EPA team sifting through the ash searching for toxic debris. "We look for any uncombusted paints," Harry Allen ...
Engineering News-Record11d
EPA Silence on Project Fund Status Concerns Stakeholders
The concern is growing after the Office of Management and Budget issued a sweeping temporary freeze on trillions of dollars of awarded federal loans and grants, including those by EPA under a ...
Townhall10d
The EPA’s Endangerment Finding Belongs on the Ash Heap of History
This is a prime example of government gone wild. The Clean Air Act was never intended to allow the EPA to declare carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant. Rather, it was designed to “address ...
CNN8d
EPA places more than 160 environmental justice employees on paid leave
More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...
CNN14d
EPA workers receive emails warning their employment could be terminated
The emails began to go out late on Wednesday afternoon, according to an EPA union official. The same message will be sent to other agency workforces, a White House official said. Across the US ...
ProPublica23d
Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm
Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the ...
Newsday29d
Ex-Rep. Lee Zeldin tells senators he would not favor industry over the environment as EPA chief
Zeldin sought to reassure the senators that he would impartially carry out the EPA’s mission. “We must do everything in our power to harness the greatness of American innovation with the ...
Truck News12d
Trucking Announcements: Piepgrass joins HTEC, new leaders at U.S. EPA, DOT
Lee Zeldin was appointed as the new administrator of the U.S. EPA, and Sean Duffy was sworn in as the 20th U.S. DOT secretary. Piepgrass named HTEC’s chief operations officer HTEC has appointed Steven ...
The Washington Post24d
70 countries have banned this pesticide. It’s still for sale in the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency said last week that it needed more time to study the health impacts of paraquat, a powerful herbicide that has drawn scrutiny for its possible links to ...
WBUR25d
Outgoing New England EPA head says Trump's environmental agenda is 'counter to the values' of U.S.
Cash spent almost three years in the EPA post. He spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins shortly after he resigned about what Trump's policies will mean for environmental ...