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… its roots in the U.S., President Donald Trump directed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do something devastating: The agency was to indefinitely and cruelly suspend environmental rule enforcement. The EPA complied, and for just under half a year, it provided over 3,000 waivers that granted … plan are extensions of what the Obama administration already got started — expanding the EPA’s EJSCREEN tool that identifies environmental justice hotspots, for instance. This is …

… the archdiocese worked with teams of volunteers to set up each parish with accounts through EPA's Energy Star Portfolio Manager, a free online program that allows an organization to upload … its energy data and track it over time. The massive data dump the archdiocese fed into the EPA software gave a general sense of the energy usage at each parish or school, but didn't tell …

… Supreme Court ruling giving tribes control of half the state​. Gov. Kevin Stitt has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American …

… Ti-Hua Chang … The Young Turks … Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American … Supreme court ruling giving the tribes sovereignty over the vast area. Stitt revealed his EPA request in a little-noticed  webinar  hosted by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, a farming trade … (R-OK) attached a midnight  rider  to an appropriations bill, creating a federal law that the EPA must regulate environmental issues on the state’s tribal land or, if requested, the state of …

… as an environmental justice commissioner for the state of Illinois, and I'm the Illinois EPA elected co-chair of the environmental justice advisory group. We know that lead exposures in …

… companies announced the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Gina McCarthy, former EPA director under the Obama administration and president of the Natural Resources Defense …

… generations to make a difference.   … Post 3: Rejecting the throwaway culture … The U.S. EPA estimates that textile waste occupies nearly 5% of all landfill space. This month, shop for …

… to him that other parts of the parish didn't have it as bad. And soon after that incident, the EPA arrived and began monitoring for a chemical, chloroprene, that is used in the nearby plant … "I got the first results of the monitoring, it scared the heck out of me," he said. When the EPA found high levels of the chemical in the air near a school, "that's really what sparked the …

… Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation. Before that, Ali worked with the EPA for 24 years, most recently serving as senior advisor for environmental justice and community …

… from 2013 to 2017, after President Barack Obama appointed her assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation in 2009. This January, she became president and CEO of the …

… by nature of the cronies he chooses to carry out his policies, chief among them the current EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, previously a lobbyist for the coal industry. Wheeler's … and previously protected lands for drilling and extraction operations. Most recently, the EPA has targeted Obama-era regulations on the coal industry on whose behalf Wheeler once lobbied, …

… EarthBeat's Interfaith Climate Tracker , the Evangelical Environmental Network notes that the EPA has found that one in six children born in the U.S. had dangerous amounts of mercury in their bodies . And now the EPA has weakened regulations on the release of such toxic metals . … Here's what's new in some …

… economic disaster," he said. A spokesperson for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in charge of overseeing the RFS, said the agency is watching the situation closely and … small refining facilities in financial distress. A federal court in January ruled that Trump's EPA had granted such exemptions inappropriately, a decision that is likely to dramatically reduce …

… environmental investigations, including  … "Climate of Doubt" …  (2012),  … "War on the EPA" …  (2018),  … "Blackout in Puerto Rico" …  (2018), and  … "Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown" …

… Springs, Colorado, in April. "Attendees continue to register daily," said Lamar Keener, EPA's executive director. "Our convention hotel has assured us they are putting extra hygienic …

… When the Supreme Court announced its ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA the decision was hailed as a landmark, leading EPA to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants and making … dynamics of the justices and dramatizes the workings of the Court during the Massachusetts v. EPA arguments. Ann Carlson, Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty …

… Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. She's found campus culture very different than the EPA environment. Not everyone on campus is well informed about or even interested in …

… for humans and other living things." A year later, President George H.W. Bush formed the EPA's office of environmental justice. And in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed an executive … for renewable energy, real-time air quality monitoring in Texas; a court battle to force the EPA to investigate civil rights complaints; and efforts by environmental organizations to build …

… Climate-Related Risks? It’s Now Up to a Judge to Decide.  (Inside Climate News) Obama’s former EPA chief takes the helm of environmental group that’s sued Trump nearly 100 times  (Washington …

… portions of the action plan in their own sustainability efforts. The chancery, already an EPA-certified Energy Star building for energy efficiency, is looking at what it would take to …