15 days ago
The EPA's acting administrator, Bob Perciasepe (pur-chuh-sep-ee), says the survey shows that many of nation's water systems are at least 50 years old and are approaching the end of their useful...
16 days ago
A government agency's watchdog says a storage warehouse rented by the Environmental Protection Agency in suburban Washington for $750,000 was tainted with rodent feces, mold and other problems.
22 days ago
Fox joined the challenge last week to the Environmental Protection Agency rules with little fanfare.
28 days ago
President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has moved one step closer to getting the job, but it came without Republican support.
34 days ago
The agency has said that the alias, based on the name of Jackson's dog, was used so that Jackson wasn't overwhelmed with the thousands of messages that came to her public EPA account.
41 days ago
Health is what gets people excited," said Ruckelshaus, of Seattle, the first administrator to lead the Environmental Protection Agency when it opened for business 42 years ago.
41 days ago
At least one Republican senator, Roy Blunt of Missouri, placed a hold on Gina McCarthy's nomination to lead the EPA over questions about a levee project in his state.
41 days ago
Senate Republicans have boycotted a scheduled committee vote on President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
48 days ago
The EPA was not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit.
93 days ago
Blunt responded by saying he was placing a "hold" on the nomination of Gina McCarthy as EPA chief.
96 days ago
The Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America claim the EPA has allowed pesticide use without required consultations with federal agencies to study the impacts.
107 days ago
Gina McCarthy, currently an assistant administrator in charge of air and radiation, would replace Lisa Jackson, the well-liked but controversial EPA leader in Obama's first term.
107 days ago
"Republican lawmakers, who've attacked the EPA for what U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue called "burdensome permitting requirements," are expected to put up more of a fight.
107 days ago
A White House official says President Barack Obama on Monday will appoint a new energy secretary and new head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
118 days ago
Under the President Barack Obama the EPA has stepped up regulation of natural gas drilling which has been booming thanks to hydraulic fracturing technology.
120 days ago
For decades, the America public has come to believe that the EPA essentially endorses whatever mileage statements are made by General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and other carmakers.
125 days ago
A top environmental official is warning lawmakers that automatic spending cuts due next month would jeopardize EPA's ability to protect against oil spills, air pollution, and hazardous waste.
128 days ago
In December 2010, the EPA issued an emergency order directing Range to identify the source of the gas in the water wells and take other corrective actions.
128 days ago
The 86 groups demand in a letter Monday to the EPA's inspector general, Arthur Elkins, that he widen an existing investigation into the agency's actions.
134 days ago
For the second year in a row, the largest greenhouse gas polluter in the nation in 2011 was the Scherer power plant in Juliette, Ga., according to the EPA.
134 days ago
The report, released Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency, said power plants remain the largest stationary source of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trigger global warming.
135 days ago
Ruckelshaus, who also headed the agency for a stint under President Ronald Reagan, said the EPA has come under attack for so long that it now suffers from "battered agency syndrome.
139 days ago
"This projection reflects EPA's current estimate of what will actually happen in 2013," she said, adding that EPA will consider public comments before setting the final cellulosic standard.
145 days ago
But the court rejected the oil industry's arguments that the EPA should have lowered a production requirement for other kinds of renewable fuels.
146 days ago
The appeals court panel faulted the EPA for imposing "massive emissions reduction requirements" on upwind states without regard to limits imposed by law.
