Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued an April 2026 report to the U.S. Congress titled: ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that ...

Iowa environmental groups are suing the EPA over the removal of Iowa rivers from the state's impaired list. What's at stake ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday informed union officials that it would terminate the contracts it signed with various labor partners effective immediately, making it the second agency to ...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is back on Capitol Hill defending the administration's plan to cut in half ...

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on March 8, 2023, because an earlier version of the story did not meet CNN editorial standards. The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. (“WMAC”) entered into an April 28th ...

Environmental Protection Agency workers in protective clothing checking soil in area of closed plant for toxic waste contamination. Photo by Steve Liss/Getty Images The Court’s reasoning may well ...

Dear Eartha, Can you explain what the EPA does and why it’s important? This year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) turns 55. In its relatively short lifetime, the EPA has had a ...

Lawyers for the Conservation Law Foundation argued federal regulators didn’t fulfill their duty in a recent permitting process to analyze whether PFAS chemicals leaving the plant could harm drinking ...

Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency executes ...