Cleaning Up Potomac River Sewer Spill Could Take Months February 26, 2026 By Zahra Hirji After a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River outside Washington, DC attracted the ire of President Donald Trump, federal...
Trump’s EPA Rollbacks Will Reverberate for ‘Decades’ February 13, 2026 By Zahra Hirji and Eric Roston US President Donald Trump is shrinking the Environmental Protection Agency more quickly and aggressively than ever before, culminating in this...
FEMA Puts Whistleblowers Back on Leave After Reinstatements December 4, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Zahra Hirji Days after reinstating a group of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees who raised concerns about the government’s disaster preparedness, federal...
FEMA Chief Resigns After Six Months, Criticism Over Floods November 17, 2025 By Zahra Hirji, Lauren Rosenthal and Myles Miller The Trump administration’s top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, resigned on Monday after about six months...
Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa October 30, 2025 By Zahra Hirji After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the...
Why Big Oil Is Asking EPA Not to Cut its Polluter Reporting Program October 23, 2025 By Zahra Hirji and Ruth Liao The Environmental Protection Agency says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas...
Disaster Relief Fund Hits Critical Low as Shutdown Endures October 23, 2025 By Hadriana Lowenkron and Zahra Hirji As the US government shutdown hurtles through a fourth week, the main source of federal funding for disaster relief efforts...
EPA Wants to Roll Back Super Pollutant Rules October 2, 2025 By Zahra Hirji and Sharon Chen The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed loosening a rule phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, highly potent greenhouse...
US Government Shutdown Curtails Key Weather and Climate Programs October 1, 2025 By Zahra Hirji and Lauren Rosenthal The closure of the federal government will curtail or halt some US climate disaster preparedness and environmental programs — and...
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency June 17, 2025 By Zahra Hirji, Jason Leopold and Lauren Rosenthal Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself...