EPA argues that the second-largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution contributes too little to the world’s climate problem to be worth regulating.

Last year, the Biden administration banned chrysotile asbestos, which the EPA called a milestone in the fight against cancer.

The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution ...

Days after NOAA released figures showing the highest seasonal concentration of CO2 in recorded history, the EPA moved to roll ...

The proposed rollback of emissions regulations is part of the Trump administration's efforts to repeal rules that aim to address climate change.

Asbestos is linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually and causes mesothelioma as well as other cancers and has been ...

President Donald Trump's administration has proposed repealing rules passed under former President Joe Biden to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, mercury and other air pollutants from power plants, ...

The Biden-era rules, finalized in 2024, would have forced most coal-fired and new natural gas power plants to capture and store 90% of their carbon emissions by 2039 or shut down by 2040.

The question of climate costs The Biden-era power plant carbon rule that EPA proposes to repeal was supported by 405 pages of modeling and analysis on health, economic and energy impacts of that rule.

The Biden EPA defended the regulation, as well within the agency's traditional rulemaking power to regulate pollution at its source. This story also appears in Energywire.

The EPA on Wednesday announced plans to eliminate Biden-era regulations limiting the amount of greenhouse gas pollution released into the atmosphere by fossil fuel–fired power plants.