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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**

High court’s blow to EPA rattles Democrats, climate change activists

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A Burger King Whopper in a wrapper, behind left, and a bag of Burger King cookies, left, rest next to a McDonald's Big Mac in a container, behind right, and a bag of McDonald's fries, in Walpole, Mass., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Environmental and health groups are pushing dozens of fast food companies, supermarkets chains and other retail outlets to remove PFAS from their packaging. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

EPA: ‘Forever chemicals’ pose risk even at very low levels

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Cars line up at a Sunoco gas station offering high-level ethanol-gasoline blends at a cost below regular gasoline, Wednesday, April 13, 2022, in Delray Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

EPA waives ban on summer sales of E15 gasoline in bid to lower prices

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this July 26, 2013, file photo, a motorist fills up with gasoline containing ethanol in Des Moines. President Biden announced Tuesday that he would allow higher-ethanol gasoline blends to be sold this summer in his latest bid to curb high gasoline prices that have voters fuming. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

White House promises 10 cent savings from higher ethanol, critics call it drop in the bucket

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - Asbestos Removal Technologies Inc., job superintendent Ryan Laitila, right, sprays amended water as job forman Megan Eberhart holds a light during asbestos abatement in Howell, Mich., Oct. 18, 2017. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, proposed a rule to finally ban asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

EPA rule would finally ban asbestos, carcinogen still in use

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Illustration on EPA and Americans' electricity bill by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Despite rising prices, EPA still wants to increase your electricity bill

By Michael O’Neill

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks to the media at the DPS headquarters on Jan. 27, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Texas leads multi-state legal challenge against EPA over higher fuel-efficiency standards

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 19, 2019, file photo, West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey speaks at a news conference in Martinsburg, W.Va. (Matthew Umstead/The Herald-Mail via AP, File)/The Herald-Mail via AP) ** FILE **

W.Va. AG Morrisey says Republican attorneys general stepping up to stop Biden ‘overreach’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 12, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden administration jacks up fuel-efficiency standards as climate bill sinks

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the AFL-CIO about union jobs and building infrastructure, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

EPA details push to tighten rules for lead in drinking water

By Suman Naishadham and Michael Phillis - Associated Press

EPA Red Tape and Environmental Justice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

EPA’s ‘environmental justice’ plan fails to address Black community needs

By Derrick Hollie

EPA Administrator Michael Regan, right, confers with city engineer Charles Williams at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, a Ridgeland based facility near Jackson, Miss., about longstanding water issues that have plagued the city, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The visit was one of several stops in a weeklong &quot;Journey to Justice&quot; tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

EPA head tours embattled communities, says help on the way

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this file photo, a truck drives down a rural road near a water tower Sept. 24, 2021, in Stanton, Tenn. In Nov. 2021, research from an environmental activist group said they discovered more contaminants linked to cancer and other health conditions in drinking-water systems throughout the U.S. this year than two years prior. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) **FILE**

Report: More pollutants found in drinking water this year

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this May 12, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic ‘forever chemicals’

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

This May 16, 2021, file photo shows window air conditioners in New York. In the first Biden administration rule aimed at combating climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to phase down production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) ** FILE **

EPA completes rule to phase out gases used as refrigerants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this May 12, 2021, file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Senate bill would black-flag EPA raids, fines on auto racing shops

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks next to a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xE during an event on clean cars and trucks, on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Consumer choice, free market biggest obstacles to Biden’s ambitious plan to phase out gas cars

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, vehicles make their way westbound on Interstate 80 across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge as seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Biden to unveil stricter emissions standards for vehicles, exceeding Obama-era regulations

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Carbon, Fossil Fuels and the World's Main Power Source Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden administration’s ‘social cost of carbon’ measure is without basis in fact

By Steve Milloy

Illustration on Biden's war on farmers by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s coming war on farmers

By Steve Milloy