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FILE - EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, right, addresses a roundtable of Jackson-area businesspeople, community leaders, residents and educators, as Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, listens, Nov. 15, 2022, at Jackson State University, in Jackson, Miss. The EPA said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it found “insufficient evidence” that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the majority-Black city of Jackson. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Racial bias did not shape Mississippi’s water funding decisions for capital city, EPA says

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

FILE - A soybean field is sprayed in Iowa, July 11, 2013. The maker of a popular weedkiller is turning to lawmakers in key states to try to squelch legal claims that it failed to warn about cancer risks. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Weedkiller manufacturer Bayer seeks lawmakers’ help to squelch claims it failed to warn about cancer

By Hannah Fingerhut and David A. Lieb - Associated Press

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey, left, stands in support of Anne Anderson, whose son died of leukemia in 1981 and was exposed to water contaminated with the chemical trichloroethylene, or TCE. The two spoke Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in Woburn, Mass., during an EPA press conference announcing its proposal to ban the chemical. (AP Photo/Michael Casey)

EPA proposes banning cancer-causing chemical used in automotive care and other products

By Michael Casey - Associated Press

FILE - A lone resident of Benton Harbor, Mich., walks across Britain Street Friday, Oct. 22, 2021, near the city's water tower in Benton Harbor. Officials say health risks due to high lead levels in drinking water in the majority Black and impoverished Michigan city were not taken quickly to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency leadership. The EPA Office of Inspector General said in a report Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 that staff monitoring the state’s response to lead levels in Benton Harbor failed to elevate the issue to the city’s residents. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

EPA staff slow to report health risks from lead-tainted Benton Harbor water, report states

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Don Sakis checks the fire in his Riteway wood stove at his home on Jan. 23, 2018, in Palmer, Alaska. Sakis and his family have heated their home with the stove for 35 years. Attorneys general from 10 states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging the agency's testing and certification program for home wood heaters is ineffective — raising health concerns — and that EPA has failed to undertake a timely review of performance standards for new heaters. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)

10 states plan to sue EPA over standards for residential wood-burning stoves

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This aerial photo taken from an airplane shows a reservoir near the old Piney Point phosphate mine on April 3, 2021, in Bradenton, Fla. Florida may begin to study whether a radioactive waste byproduct of fertilizer production, phosphogypsum, can be used to help build roads, under a bill passed by the state Legislature in May 2023. (Tiffany Tompkins/The Bradenton Herald via AP) **FILE**

Florida may study use of radioactive waste in building roads

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A white shark swims across a sand bar off the Massachusetts' coast of Cape Cod, Aug. 13, 2021. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft determination Thursday, April 27, 2023, that a proposed machine gun training range at a National Guard base may contaminate the Cape Cod aquifer — an aquifer system beneath the Cape Cod peninsula in southeastern Massachusetts — creating a significant public health hazard. (AP Photo/Phil Marcelo, File)

EPA: Machine gun range could harm Cape Cod drinking water

By Steve LeBlanc - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The EPA announced Thursday, April 13, it's investing $177 million to create 17 hubs around the country to help environmental justice organizations access federal funds. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

EPA awards $177 million to environmental justice groups

By Drew Costley - Associated Press

This photo released March 10, 2023, by the Ohio governor's office, shows covered piles of soils contaminated with vinyl chloride after a February train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Shipments of the tainted soils and liquids to treatment and storage facilities in other states have drawn protests in communities receiving the waste, but federal officials say the facilities regularly take similar wastes from elsewhere. (State of Ohio via AP)

Ohio train derailment highlights waste disposal predicament

By John Flesher - Associated Press

Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. President Joe Biden's administration cleared the way for California's plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, a part of the state's efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks

By Sophie Austin - Associated Press

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. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment

By John Seewer - Associated Press

FILE - A worker with the Pebble Mine project digs in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamma, Alaska, July 13, 2007. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a decision Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, that would block plans for the proposed Pebble Mine, a copper and gold project in southwest Alaska. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

Feds use rare veto to block Alaska copper, gold mine plan

By Becky Bohrer and Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

A resident of Salinas, considered one of the most contaminated towns in Puerto Rico, waits for a meeting with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials to start, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023 in Salinas, Puerto Rico. Emboldened by the attention that the federal government has now placed in Salinas, communities are demanding a massive clean-up and penalties for those contaminating a region where residents have long complained about health conditions. (AP Photo/Danica Coto).

Puerto Rico’s southern region fights for cleaner air, water

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Republican Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin speaks to the media after a transition luncheon in front of the Governor's Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Ex-Trump official to serve as Glenn Youngkin’s senior adviser in Virginia

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin works in the old Governor's office at the Capitol Wednesday March 2, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Legislature OKs all Youngkin cabinet members but Wheeler

By Sarah Rankin - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden and the EPA by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Derailing Biden’s EPA climate railroad

By Steve Milloy

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan speaks during a news conference at the Des Moines TCE Superfund Site, Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. Regan joined Des Moines officials at the former industrial site at the edge of downtown to discuss plans to clean up contaminated soil and transfer ownership to the city. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

EPA and Des Moines move to rehab polluted eyesore property

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

Navajo-Gallup water project advances after agency agreement

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EPA, railroad agree to $140,000 settlement for Wyoming spill

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New Mexico tribes sue US over federal clean water rule

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press