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In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion in grants for clean energy projects combating climate change, including residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers. The funds come from two programs that are part of the “green bank” created in the Biden administration’s landmark climate law passed in 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EPA bans solvent linked to 88 deaths since 1980

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The Marshall Steam Station coal power plant operates on March 3, 2024, near Mooresville, N.C. A rule issued April 24, 2024, by the Environmental Protection Agency would force power plants fueled by coal or natural to capture smokestack emissions or shut down. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) **FILE**

Biden forces cap on nearly all plant emissions by 2032, further strains electrical grid

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Nicholas Hartnett, owner of Pure Power Solar, holds a panel as his company installs a solar array on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants

By Alexa St. John and Will Weissert - Associated Press

An E15 nozzle is displayed on a pum at service station in Minneapolis, Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 photo. The Environmental Protection Agency cleared the way Friday, April 19, 2024, for E15, a higher blend of ethanol, to be sold nationwide for the third summer in a row. Gasoline with 10% ethanol is already sold nationwide, but the higher blend has been prohibited in the summer because of concerns it could worsen smog during warm weather. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP, File)

The EPA is again allowing summer sales of higher ethanol gasoline blend, citing global conflicts

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

A sign sits at an electric vehicle charging station, Friday, March 8, 2024, at an electric vehicle charging station in London, Ohio. The charging ports are a key part of President Joe Biden’s effort to encourage drivers to move away from gasoline-powered cars and trucks that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel) ** FILE **

Two at-risk Senate Democrats vote with GOP to kill Biden EV mandate

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

China, with the help of the EPA, is coming for your car

By Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

Jackson Quinn, foreground, places a bottle contains a PFAS water sample into a rotator, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced its first-ever limits for several common types of PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals," in drinking water. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Why is the EPA regulating PFAS and what are these ‘forever chemicals’?

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Eva Stebel, water researcher, pours a water sample into a smaller glass container for experimentation as part of drinking water and PFAS research at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response on Feb. 16, 2023, in Cincinnati. The Biden administration on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, finalized strict limits on certain so-called “forever chemicals” in drinking water that will require utilities to reduce them to the lowest level they can be reliably measured. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Biden administration imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on toxic PFAS

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

FILE - The Fifth Ward Elementary School and residential neighborhoods sit near the Denka Performance Elastomer Plant, back, in Reserve, La., Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, issued a rule that will force more than 200 chemical plants nationwide to reduce toxic compounds that cross beyond their property lines, exposing thousands of people to elevated cancer risks. The rule will significantly reduce harmful emissions at the Denka Performance Elastomer facility, the largest source of chloroprene emissions in the country, EPA Administrator Michael Regan said. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

New EPA rule says 200 chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

President Joe Biden drives a Cadillac Lyriq through the showroom during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show, Sept. 14, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s climate change rules cost nearing $1 trillion

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Mike Nichols stands near a diesel big rig as he ponders doing his job with an all-electric semitruck. “The fact of the matter is it wouldn’t work,” he told The Washington Times. “It’s not ready for prime time.” Truckers nationwide are expressing similar misgivings about what they say is a logistical nightmare: the Biden administration’s new rules to make heavy-duty trucks start going electric. (Image courtesy of Mike Nichols)

‘Not ready for prime time’: Truckers fume over Biden’s EV mandate for big rigs

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Debris from a Norfolk Southern freight train lies scattered and burning along the tracks on Feb. 4, 2023, the day after it derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

AP Exclusive: EPA did not declare a public health emergency after fiery Ohio derailment

By Josh Funk - Associated Press

New railroad regulations with the Biden administration Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

California regulators poised to drive up shipping costs with all-electric locomotives

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Michael Regan, left, arrives at the Fifth Ward Elementary School, which is near the Denka plant, with Robert Taylor, second left, founder of Concerned Citizens of St. John's Parish, and Lydia Gerard, third left, a member of the group, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. The EPA sued Denka Performance Elastomer LLC, arguing that its petrochemical operations in southern Louisiana posed an unacceptable cancer risk to the mostly Black community nearby. The EPA has demanded that the company reduce toxic emissions from its plant that makes synthetic rubber. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Biden’s environmental justice agenda will soon be put to the legal test

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

EPA's tailpipe emissions rules and electric vehicles illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

EPA’s tailpipe emissions rule rides roughshod over our freedoms

By Miles Pollard and Laura Gorceac

Tesla electric vehicles are seen at Tesla chargers, May 10, 2023, in Westlake, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

Biden’s electric vehicle mandate puts swing-state Democrats in the hot seat

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden drives a Cadillac Lyriq through the showroom during a tour at the Detroit Auto Show, Sept. 14, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden speeds ahead with EV mandate to ditch most new gas cars by 2030

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits in the next few years but reach the same strict standards outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency last year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

As electric vehicle sales slow, U.S. relaxes plans for stricter auto emissions standards for a while

By Tom Krisher and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Asbestos Removal Technologies Inc. staff work on asbestos abatement in Howell, Mich., Oct. 18, 2017. The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, March 18, 2024, announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year but is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Feb. 3, in East Palestine, Ohio, are still on fire on Feb. 4, 2023. The major freight railroads all promised safety improvements after the fiery derailment in eastern Ohio one year ago, but they have yet to make a meaningful improvement in the safety statistics and efforts to reform the industry have stalled in Congress. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA lawyer handled Ohio train wreck despite her husband’s law firm representing Norfolk Southern

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times