The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to reverse its scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger ...

The administration’s approach, led by White House and Justice Department officials, would focus on a legal rather than a ...

Altogether, the planned cuts, which include voluntary retirements and separations in addition to layoffs, would reduce ...

In a surprising move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared a plan that could remove its own power to fight ...

The United States has entered a new phase—one of deregulatory momentum—driven by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and an ...

Democrats have been all aflutter for the past six months over the possibility that President Donald Trump might ignore a ...

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency's authority and relaxing ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt a major blow to climate action by handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate planet-warming emissions from the country’s power ...

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

The Supreme Court limited the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate emissions. NPR's Michel Martin asks former EPA head William K. Reilly how that will impact the agency's goals.

The Supreme Court's ruling that curbs the power of the EPA will slow its ability to respond to the climate crisis, but "does not take the EPA out of the game," according to its administrator.

The John E. Amos coal-fired power plant in Poca, West Virginia. The Supreme Court heard a case on Monday that could restrict EPA's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.