Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Rule in Blow to Regulators June 28, 2024 By Greg Stohr A divided US Supreme Court threw out a decades-old legal doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws, issuing...
EPA Proposes Banning Cancer-Causing Chemical TCE Used in Automotive Care October 26, 2023 By Michael Casey The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday proposed banning the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene, which can be found in consumer products...
Biden to Restore Legal Foundation for Limits on Mercury Pollution, Discarded by Trump September 27, 2021 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy President Joe Biden plans in coming days to shore up one of the most consequential environmental regulations in history by...
Justice Department Urges Congress to Rewrite Regulatory Policy August 12, 2020 By David Shepardson The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday urged Congress to revise a 74-year-law that is central to how the government sets...
White House Moves to Weaken EPA Rule on Toxic PFA Compounds in Consumer Products April 20, 2020 By Ellen Knickmeyer The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration,...
Oil Industry Seeks Easing of Environmental Regulation During Pandemic March 26, 2020 By Ellen Knickmeyer The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that it’s reviewing a request from the oil and gas industry to ease...
Lost Pheasants, Disappearing Grasslands: Is Crop Insurance to Blame? November 1, 2013 By Alan Bjerga The hunters tramp through neck-high prairie grass with a pair of golden retrievers named Moe and Buck, flushing out birds...
States Plan to Sue EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations December 12, 2012 By Andrew Longstreth A coalition of seven eastern states led by New York plans to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing...
BP Products to Pay $50M for Illegal Emissions at Texas City Refinery November 4, 2011 BP Products North America Inc. will pay the state of Texas $50 million for unlawfully emitting pollutants during and after...
Invited by GOP, Businesses Vent About EPA, OSHA, Dodd-Frank Rules February 11, 2011 By Larry Margasak On issues ranging from the air we breathe to the noise factories make, business leaders want the government to stay...