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“Environmental justice” has no place at a regulatory agency. But the EPA was already a problem.

One of President Donald Trump's promises upon taking office was to revamp vehicle emissions regulations established by the previous administration. That is now officially underway in what the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling the "biggest deregulatory action in US history."

Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants

The EPA has just dropped the mother of all deregulations. In minutes (two, to be specific), Trump's hand-picked administrator of the department announced sweeping changes that critics are calling "the most disastrous day in EPA history." Gone is the original mission of the EPA—that is, protecting the health of the…

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies, including carbon limits on power plants, tailpipe emissions standards and protections for waterways.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday announced nearly three dozen deregulatory moves that he said would spur the U.S. economy by rolling back rules that have unfairly burdened industry

The move is part of a broader suite of deregulatory actions announced by the EPA Administrator, and is likely the least advisable item on the list.

EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’

Trump ally Lee Zeldin says Environmental Protection Agency will eliminate 31 protections for air and water pollution.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs

The Trump administration announced on March 12, 2025, that it is “reconsidering” more than 30 air pollution regulations in a series of moves that could impact air quality across the United States.