President Trump this week appointed Josh F.W. Cook as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in California and the Pacific Southwest, making him one of the Golden State's most ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fire 280 staffers who worked on tackling pollution in overburdened and underserved communities and will reassign another 175. These staffers worked in an ...

During a meeting Friday, EPA leaders encouraged more than 1,500 within its Office of Research and Development to reapply for ...

Anne Vogel, third from left, listens as Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at a news conference in 2023 along the Scioto River in downtown Columbus to announce a new survey finding that Ohio's large rivers have ...

John Busterud, if confirmed, would be in charge of remediating the nation's most contaminated sites amid a deregulatory blitz ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans on May 2 to slash its budget by $300 million in fiscal year 2026, reduce staffing to 1980s levels and dissolve its research and ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to ...