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Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to increase the levels of exposure to highly carcinogenic formaldehyde it considers safe. If successful, people would continue…

The Environmental Protection Agency has scrubbed from its website information on how humans are driving warming. A web page that once explored the central role of…

The chemical industry finally got its wish. Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk…

“Make America healthy again” (Maha) movement leaders have put out a petition calling for Donald Trump to fire Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lee Zeldin, who,…

The US Senate is poised to approve Donald Trump’s nomination of an industry lobbyist to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office.If the nominee,…

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August 30, 20253 min readEPA Fires ‘Dissent’ Statement SignersThe EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine…

The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly terminate a $3bn program helping hundreds of communities prepare for climate disasters and environmental hazards is unconstitutional and should be…

Trump’s EPA Is Taking Aim at the Legal Backbone of U.S. Climate PolicyThe Trump administration is releasing its proposal to undo the “endangerment finding,” the long-standing…