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New EPA rule could allow more use of toxic chemicals
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a new rule regarding the regulation of toxic chemicals that would give the agency…
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Deity dolls and people power: Africa's top shots
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement…
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Appeals court sides with Trump's EPA in fight over Biden's last-minute climate grants
A federal appeals court backed the Trump administration in its effort to have the Environmental Protection Agency cancel billions of…
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Trump’s EPA Is Hurting the Automakers It’s Claiming to Help
The Trump administration has now taken a chain saw to just about every subsidy and regulation that might have forced U.S. automakers to…
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Trump’s EPA Is Now Flouting the World’s Highest Court
Consider the testimony of the United States in the ICJ case, submitted in 2024 by then–State Department legal adviser Richard Visek. After…
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Trump’s EPA Plans to Kill Rule Critical to Fighting Climate Change
“It’s really disheartening to see President Trump just declare that to be a hoax. I don’t think it is. And I think it’s going to cause him…
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EPA Punishes Employees Who Sent Zeldin “Declaration of Dissent”
On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency placed at least 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed and publicized a…
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House panel probes climate change crackdown on businesses by Biden's Justice Department, EPA
The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee's federal law enforcement panel has opened an investigation into the Biden…
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Trump’s EPA Head Melts Down When Democrat Catches Him in a Lie
House Democrats immediately pounced. At a House Rules Committee meeting early Wednesday morning, ranking member Jim McGovern asked…
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Shake-up at EPA threatens Energy Star, climate offices
WASHINGTON — A proposal by the Trump administration to reorganize the Environmental Protection Agency targets divisions that house its…
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Cash, tinned food and radio news: Making it through one of Europe's biggest ever power cuts
The power is out and nothing is working. How am I supposed to get through the day? That was the question faced by millions of people on…
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EPA chief urges Mexico to help deliver '100% solution' to clean up polluted Tijuana River
U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday called for Mexico and the U.S. to develop a “100% solution” to stop the flow of raw sewage…
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Trump Celebrates Earth Day by Gutting Key EPA Office
A federal judge ordered Donald Trump Tuesday to restore Voice of America and other government-funded radio broadcasts. In a 10-page order,…
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Trump is cutting the nation's environmental programs. Here are the health risks to Americans
The Trump administration’s slash-and-burn approach to federal programs has delivered a considerable hit to the nation’s environment, but…
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'Inbox from hell': Environmental groups outraged after EPA says polluters can email for exemptions
Environmental groups were outraged this week after the Environmental Protection Agency, acting under orders from President Trump, invited…
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Trump vows to immediately ramp up U.S. production of ‘beautiful, clean coal’
President Trump this week continued to make his environmental priorities clear by vowing to open up hundreds of coal power plants in the…
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Supreme Court rules for San Francisco, limits EPA's power on stormwater discharges
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled for San Francisco on Tuesday, limiting the power of environmental regulators…
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Boss ladies and holy men: Africa's top shots
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The EPA Just Locked Its Own Employees Out of Doing Their Jobs
Many of these Musk staffers are young people between 19 and 24, such as software engineer Akash Bobba, an undergraduate student at…
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Millions of Americans' water has forever chemicals or other contaminants
Nearly one-third of people across the U.S. may be exposed to unregulated contaminants in their drinking water. Twenty-seven percent of…
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Nigerians take to the streets for Calabar Carnival
Christmas revellers descended on Nigeria's southern port city of Calabar this weekend for its festive carnival dubbed "Africa's biggest…
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Industrial and business groups send Trump a deregulatory wish list
More than a hundred industrial trade groups and chambers of commerce are urging President-elect Donald Trump to weaken or eliminate…
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U.S. Supreme Court will decide if oil industry may sue to block California's zero-emissions goal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened the door Friday for a potential challenge to California’s long-standing authority to set stricter…
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Pelicans, prayers and people power: Africa's top shots
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: From the BBC in Africa this week: Go to BBCAfrica.com…