Environmental Protection Agency

Parts of the Cape Fear River near Fayetteville, N.C., are contaminated with a PFAS compound called GenX. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is surveying residents in the area about their health.

Scientists Dig Into Hard Questions About The Fluorinated Pollutants Known As PFAS

9:22am April 22, 2019

by Rebecca Hersher

PFAS are a family of chemicals accumulating in the soil, rivers, drinking water and the human body. How much exposure to these substances in clothes, firefighting foam and food wrap is too much?

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Smog filled Utah's Salt Lake Valley in January 2017. Winter weather in the area often traps air pollution that is bad for public health.

EPA Science Panel Considering Guidelines That Upend Basic Air Pollution Science

9:06pm March 28, 2019

by Rebecca Hersher

Some panel members said they don't agree that breathing sooty air can cause premature death. The panel's draft recommendations to the EPA would change how it assesses the dangers of air pollution.

Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history.

How California's Worst Oil Spill Turned Beaches Black And The Nation Green

11:51am January 28, 2019

by Jon Hamilton

In 1969, oil from an offshore well left beaches in Santa Barbara, Calif., coated with crude and littered with dead birds. The country's reaction helped create the modern environmental movement.

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Acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the Trump Administration plans to tackle the issue of of lead exposure "head on." Wheeler seen here during a Senate Committee hearing in August.

Critics Call Trump Administration Plan To Reduce Lead Exposure Toothless

5:08pm December 19, 2018

by Brakkton Booker

The Federal Lead Action Plan is a framework rather than a call for new regulations. The plan seeks to bolster efforts to communicate the dangers of lead exposure. Critics say it doesn't go far enough.

In this June 3, 2017, file photo, the coal-fired Plant Scherer stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.

EPA Boasts Of Reduced Greenhouse Gases, Even As Trump Questions Climate Science

8:42am October 18, 2018

by Scott Horsley

U.S. production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases fell 2.7 percent last year. But larger cuts will be needed to address climate change.

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EPA Drops 26 North Carolina Counties From Emissions Program

3:49pm September 26, 2018

by Associated Press

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has dropped 26 counties from North Carolina's requirement for vehicle emissions inspections.

Attorney General Stein Calls Out Trump EPA For Censoring Scientific Data

11:59am August 21, 2018

by Neal Charnoff

North Carolina's Attorney General has joined a coalition accusing the Trump Administration of “censoring science.”

California argues it should be allowed to set its own fuel efficiency standards.

White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California

1:18pm August 02, 2018

Government agencies have released a proposal to freeze fuel economy and emissions requirements for six years. The proposed rules would also block California from setting its own, higher standards.

Andrew Wheeler, the Environmental Protection Agency's deputy and soon-to-be acting administrator

Get To Know Andrew Wheeler, Ex-Coal Lobbyist With Inside Track To Lead EPA

8:40pm July 06, 2018

The agency's next acting chief has drawn praise as a capable administrator. But critics still say the transition from Scott Pruitt is a bit like "going from a train wreck to a house on fire."

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was among the most controversial of President Trump's original Cabinet-level picks.

Scott Pruitt Out At EPA

7:02pm July 05, 2018

After months of ethics scandals and investigations, the embattled Environmental Protection Agency head has resigned, the president said Thursday.