The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans on May 2 to slash its budget by $300 million in fiscal year 2026, reduce staffing to 1980s levels and dissolve its research and development office ...

President Trump's efforts to overhaul the Environmental Protection Agency are being cheered by many in the fossil fuel industry who are critics of what they say is excessive regulation. But many, ...

The Trump administration plans to reconsider about two dozen environmental rules, in what the Environmental Protection Agency calls the "most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history." That ...

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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator, about the future of the agency under President Trump. We want to talk more about this with Christine Todd Whitman. She ...

If a shutdown continues, it could interrupt the Environmental Protection Agency’s work and pull workers from maintaining national parks. We have more coverage of the government shutdown below, but ...

Nonprofit leaders with EPA grants describe weeks of a communication blackout. Environmental Protection Agency staff members across the country have been told by supervisors they are prohibited from ...

For four decades, Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta worked in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a firsthand observer of the evolution of science within the agency. As the principal deputy assistant ...

President Donald Trump this week ordered closures of offices at the Environmental Protection Agency that help low-income communities overwhelmed with pollution. The order was one of dozens aimed at ...