Environmental Protection Agency

Senate Republicans are poised to use their majority to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, despite calls from Democrats for a delay

As the Greenpeace USA banner hung in sight of the White House said: Resist.

Myron Ebell suggested it was reasonable to expect the president to seek a cut of about US$1 billion from the EPA’s roughly US$8 billion annual budget.

Government workers in the U.S. were defiant in the face of government orders not to communicate with the public.

The nomination of Pruitt, 48, to lead the EPA is being fiercely opposed by environmental groups that point to fundraising ties with corporations he has sued to protect.

Oil could be facing a tipping point similar to the U.S. coal industry, which is in structural decline, writes Hamish Stewart.

The rules have already run into deep opposition from farm groups and the Republican-led Congress.