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The Environmental Protection Agency's children's environmental health centers have engaged in "statistical shenanigans" to draw shaky links on children's health issues, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (Associated Press/File)

Settlement with Texas oil company will remove thousands of pounds of pollutants from the air

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine meets with reporters after touring the Norfolk Southern train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 6, 2023. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a package of reforms to improve safety Tuesday, Feb. 21 — two days after he warned the railroad responsible for the derailment, Norfolk Southern, to fulfill its promises to clean up the mess just outside East Palestine, and help the town recover. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA takes charge of cleanup in toxic Ohio train derailment

By John Seewer and Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1, 2021. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

EPA wants to know how it should spend $3 billion on climate justice

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey speaks to supporters after the Republicans' reelection victory, Nov. 8, 2022, in Montgomery, Ala. Ivey begins her second full term on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 with her inauguration. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

EPA takes charge of Alabama landfill fire after state request

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Traffic moves along along 99 south in Fresno, Calif., Dec. 28, 2017. Fresno displaced Fairbanks, Alaska as the metropolitan area with the worst short-term particle pollution, a 2022 report by the American Lung Association found, while Bakersfield, Calif., continued in the most-polluted slot for year-round particle pollution for the third year in a row. (John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)

EPA moves to toughen standards for deadly soot pollution

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Project developers plan to build carbon capture pipelines connecting dozens of Midwestern ethanol refineries, such as this one in Chancellor, S.D., shown on July 22, 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years, a move welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)

EPA seeks to mandate more use of ethanol and other biofuels

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, North Dakota, Aug. 26, 2021. The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to reduce methane emissions, targeting the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as President Joe Biden has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump. Biden was set to announce a supplemental rule Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, cracking down on emissions of methane as he attends a global climate conference in Egypt. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Biden tightens methane emissions rule amid push for more oil

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Sharon Wilson sets up a thermal imaging camera near a compressor station in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Wilson, a field advocate for Earthworks, which promotes alternatives to fossil fuels, uses the high-tech camera to detect methane leaks at oil and gas facilities. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing

By Cathy Bussewitz - Associated Press

EPA Regulatory Overreach Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

EPA letting politics, not science, define PFAS cleanup

By Mandy Gunasekara

In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. More than 300 businesses and investors are calling on the Biden administration to set an ambitious climate change goal that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by 2030. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

U.S. power-plant emissions increase in 2021 in post-pandemic rebound

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court dives into clash between landowners, feds over wetlands, property rights

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan announces a new federal office of environmental justice at a ceremony in Warrenton, N.C., on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

Biden administration launches environmental justice office

By Hannah Schoenbaum - Associated Press

A trickle of water comes out of the faucet of Mary Gaines a resident of the Golden Keys Senior Living apartments in her kitchen in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. A recent flood worsened Jackson's longstanding water system problems. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Gov. Tate Reeves: Mississippi capital’s water is again safe to drink

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 14, 2022. The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses, advocates across the political spectrum say. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court climate ruling could impact nuclear waste case

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., April 14, 2022. The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

EPA to designate ‘forever chemicals’ as hazardous substances

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

FILE - The aftermath of a retention pond wall collapse at the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant in Harriman, Tenn., is seen on Dec. 22, 2008. A coalition of environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, over its refusal to regulate some older coal ash dumps, claiming they are polluting air and groundwater. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Groups sue Environmental Protection Agency over coal ash

By Travis Loller - Associated Press

The Supreme Court said 'no' to the EPA illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Supreme Court said ‘no’ to the EPA; it should continue

By Rep. Doug LaMalfa

Supreme Court's EPA ruling illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Supreme Court’s EPA ruling is a win for the country

By Patrick Morrisey

Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 21, 2021. The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated for decades as the government tried to catch up to changes wrought by the internet. Under Chair Khan, the FTC also has widened the door to more actively writing new regulations in what critics say is a broader interpretation of the agency’s legal authority. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner via AP, Pool, File)

Ruling could dampen government efforts to rein in Big Tech

By Matt O'Brien - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court rules for states against EPA, Biden climate change agenda

By Alex Swoyer and Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times