The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is facing strong public opposition to its proposed plans to extend closure deadlines ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it would propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a harmful chemical in rockets and other explosives, but also said doing ...

The agency says its top items are abolishing a key US climate rule and delaying vehicle emission standard enforcement ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding over $616,000 in funding for two New Mexico tribes. Funds are ...

Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news. "Climate facts are back ...

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that ...

The West Virginia Coal Association applauds the EPA’s extension of ELG compliance timelines, saying the move protects jobs ...

For the first time in the agency’s 55-year history, Congress has ceded its responsibility to oversee the EPA to a single ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration aims to cut around 65% of staff at the Environmental Protection ...

The grant funding comes from the federal agency's Indian Environmental General Assistance Program and the Clean Water Act.

Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling ...