Charles McPhedran, Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “This moves EPA forward.”

Locals aren’t letting dirty industry expand in the Gulf without a fight.

Lisa Evans, Senior Counsel, Clean Energy Program: “It may result in very few properties being cleaned up if that [natural level of arsenic] standard is set artificially high.”

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “Those rules are a regulatory Rube Goldberg machine, with numerous loopholes and many different tracks allowing companies to minimize the bonds they have to post.”

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

Seven years after EPA Coal Ash Rule, 96% of coal plants are not planning any treatment of contaminated groundwater

By law, before government regulations are adopted or changed, agencies must ask the public — you — to weigh in.

746 coal ash units in 43 states and Puerto Rico have reported information in compliance with federal coal ash safeguards since 2015. Here’s what the data said.

An international court ruled in favor of the people of La Oroya, Peru, finding that the government violated their right to a healthy environment.

Trapping and snaring will no longer be allowed during non-denning periods

Northern Cheyenne Tribe and conservation groups urge Interior Department to act on coal

Under new guidance regarding hazardous sites, the current screening standard of 400ppm will be reduced to 200ppm, significantly increasing the number of sites subject to cleanup.

What to expect at EPA’s virtual and in-person hearings on the Legacy CCR Surface Impoundment Rule

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Pō‘ai Wai Ola and Nā Kia‘i Kai raised concerns about the energy project’s impact on the Waimea River