Environmental Protection Agency

Federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods.

Under the plan, VW owners can either choose to have their emissions systems repaired for free or have the company buy back their vehicles.

The company that developed the Dakota Access oil pipeline is entangled in another fight, this time in Ohio.

The Trump administration moved Tuesday to roll back an Obama administration policy that protected more than half the nation’s streams from pollution.

President Donald Trump said the United States "will continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth." By some measures, it's the dirtiest.

U.S. allies around the world sounded alarms on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, as President Donald Trump seemed close to pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate accord.

The Trump administration settled a lawsuit on Friday, May 12, 2017, over the proposed development of a massive gold and copper mine at the headwaters of one of Alaska's premier salmon fisheries.

The White House has postponed a May 9, 2017, meeting to discuss whether the U.S. should withdraw from the landmark international climate deal struck in Paris under the Obama administration.

At the Trump administration's request, a federal appeals court agreed on Friday, April 24, 2017, to postpone a ruling on lawsuits challenging Obama-era restrictions on carbon emissions.

A spill at a U.S. Steel plant in northern Indiana that sent wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a Lake Michigan tributary was apparently caused by a pipe failure.

Economic damage from a Colorado mine waste spill caused by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be far less than originally feared after attorneys drastically reduced some of the larger claims

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on March 28 that will suspend, rescind, or flag for review measures that were part of former President Barack Obama's plan to curb global warming.

President Donald Trump wants to eliminate federal support of a program that addresses the Great Lakes' most pressing environmental threats.

The EPA under Obama’s stewardship had promulgated a rule for cars and trucks requiring a fleet−wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025.

Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Thursday that "Scott Pruitt is just plain wrong on this."