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FILE - Workmen prepare to replace older water pipes with a new copper one in Newark, N.J., Oct. 21, 2021. As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead water pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Some states reject federal money to find and replace dangerous lead pipes

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Illustration on the Biden's push for electric vehicles by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Rush to expand electric vehicle fleets is misguided

By Rep. Bob Latta

FILE - A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA weighs formal review of vinyl chloride, the toxic chemical that burned in Ohio train derailment

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, Airman 1st Class Jackson Ligon, left, and Senior Airman Jonathan Marinaccio, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron technicians connect a re-entry system to a spacer on an intercontinental ballistic missile during a Simulated Electronic Launch-Minuteman test Sept. 22, 2020, at a launch facility near Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Mont. The Air Force has temporarily closed two nuclear launch facilities after finding unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen in air samples at a Montana missile base where a striking number of men and women who served have reported cancer diagnoses. (Senior Airman Daniel Brosam/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Carcinogens found at Montana nuclear missile sites as reports of hundreds of cancers surface

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The former head of a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents improperly spent more than $90,000 during her tenure, including unauthorized trips to and from her California home, remodeling her Washington office and outside media training for herself, according to a new report by a federal watchdog. The report by the EPA’s inspector general says Katherine Lemos, the former chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, was not entitled to travel expenses for at least 18 round trips to the capital from her home in San Diego from April 2020 through March 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Rancher in Washington state to pay Environmental Protection Agency $50,000 for illegal dam

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A plume of smoke is emitted into the air from a power plant in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) **FILE**

Spendthrift EPA growing too fast under Biden, watchdog warns

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration announced nearly $60 million in grants to help schools and day care centers remove lead from drinking water during an event in Boston on Monday, July 24. Warren said the grant money will help create "lasting, resilient water systems." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

$58M in federal grants aim to help schools, day care centers remove lead from drinking water

Associated Press

A Tesla auto charges on May 10, 2023, in Westlake, Calif. All of Ford Motor Co.'s current and future electric vehicles will have access to about 12,000 Tesla Supercharger stations starting in 2024, according to an announcement Thursday, May 25, 2023, by Ford CEO Jim Farley and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) **FILE**

In the hot seat: EV owners warned extreme summer heat could melt travel plans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A 2023 R1T pickup truck is charged in a bay at a Rivian delivery and service center Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Biden’s EV goals, push to phase out gas-powered cars face growing resistance

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Richie Nero, of Boyle & Fogarty Construction, shows the the cross section of an original lead, residential water service line, at left, and the replacement copper line, at right, outside a home where service was getting upgraded, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Providence, R.I. Health and environmental groups have been fighting for lead-free water to drink in Providence for at least a decade. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Some cities are digging up water mains and leaving lead pipe in the ground

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Red states aim to pull the plug on Biden’s ‘unlawful’ EV goals

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Top oil lobbyist blasts Biden’s ‘de facto ban’ on gas-powered vehicles

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The former head of a federal agency that investigates chemical accidents improperly spent more than $90,000 during her tenure, including unauthorized trips to and from her California home, remodeling her Washington office and outside media training for herself, according to a new report by a federal watchdog. The report by the EPA’s inspector general says Katherine Lemos, the former chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, was not entitled to travel expenses for at least 18 round trips to the capital from her home in San Diego from April 2020 through March 2022. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ex-chemical safety agency chief misused $90K on trips, renovations and other expenses, watchdog says

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

FILE - Myrtle Felton, from left, Sharon Lavigne, Gail LeBoeuf and Rita Cooper, members of RISE St. James, conduct a live stream video on property owned by Formosa on March 11, 2020, in St. James Parish, La. The Biden administration has dropped an investigation into whether Louisiana officials put Black residents living in an industrial stretch of the state at increased cancer risk, despite finding initial evidence of racial discrimination, according to a federal court filing Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

EPA retreats on Louisiana investigations that alleged Blacks lived amid higher cancer risk

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Illustration on the negatives of a government 'transition' to electric cars by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

EPA again oversteps in its goal to turn American cars electric

By Chet Thompson

EPA is never satisfied

Illustration on the air proposal cuts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

EPA air proposal cuts too fast, threatens local economies

By Hardie Davis Jr.

Illustration on government assault on property rights by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Government attacks free will when it assaults property rights

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., asks question during a Senate Rules and Administration Committee hearing to examine the Electoral Count Act, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senators urge EPA to withdraw ‘legally flawed’ vehicle emission regulations

By Olivia Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling against duck liver lovers, declining Monday, May 22, 2023, to step in and hear a dispute over a California law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court reins in Biden admin’s power over U.S. waterways

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times