The EPA is rolling out a sweeping effort on Wednesday to more quickly clean up the nation’s Superfund sites contaminated by hazardous waste, the agency’s number two official said.

The Justice Department’s environmental division is increasingly playing offense and taking states to court in the second Trump administration—a shift from its historical defensive role, the department...

The EPA under President Donald Trump notched higher enforcement numbers across several key metrics in fiscal 2025 than it has in a decade, Jeffrey Hall, head of the agency’s enforcement division, said...

The Trump administration must consider renewable energy alternatives in rebuilding Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, a federal judge ruled.

Environmental Protection Agency employees are being told not to participate in events hosted by one of the nation’s premier environmental legal associations, according to a letter reviewed by Bloomber...

The White House released a three-part action plan Monday to speed the development of artificial intelligence in the US.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the EPA can hold back billions of dollars in federal grants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions issued under the Biden administration.

The EPA on Friday terminated at least five of the roughly 140 employees who signed a public letter in June critical of the agency’s political leadership, according to the staffers’ union.

Google told the Trump administration it’s worried about a plan to mine the seafloor for critical minerals, saying it could damage the company’s planned underwater cable system.

In February the skies opened over southwestern Virginia, dumping seven inches of rain in a torrent that washed out roads, destroyed homes and businesses, and prompted Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to declar...

The White House’s new plan to fast-track AI data centers has critics worried about harms to the climate and environment, especially if the administration makes good on its bid to build on public lands...

There’s precedent for the expedited permitting fee tucked into the tax and spending law President Donald Trump signed last week—but also uncertainty about whether it will actually work as intended, fo...

The EPA has placed on administrative leave 139 employees who signed their names to a Monday letter that was sharply critical of the Trump administration.

The White House’s new permitting director wants to vastly expand her office’s work in getting projects built—including, for the first time, data centers and artificial intelligence facilities.

The EPA is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool agency-wide on Thursday that it says will supercharge its staff’s capabilities, a goal the new administrator set when first joining the agency.

The top environmental enforcer during the Biden era is gearing up to help cities and states push back against the Trump administration in new roles at a boutique law firm and a top environmental law s...

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The EPA’s budget would be cut by more than half under President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, released Friday.

The Trump administration’s dismissal of the authors of the National Climate Assessment poses risks for large sectors of the economy that depend on the report to guide everything from crop planning to ...

Fourteen years after the Fukushima disaster, nuclear power is being rebranded as a climate savior, and fission is in fashion.

The Trump administration is moving to reshape the way individual agencies handle environmental permitting, according to a White House document reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily ordered the Trump administration to turn the climate grant funding spigots back on nationwide, at least while lawsuits over frozen funds are pending.

The Trump administration asked a federal court on Tuesday for an emergency stay pending its appeal in a legal tussle over $20 billion in EPA grants, saying the recipients will quickly spend the money ...

Permitting specialists on both sides of the aisle say they’re not expecting an infrastructure boom now that the White House’s implementing regulations for environmental permitting have been swept away...

The EPA has rescinded the termination of some of the employees it recently let go, according to an internal email sent to affected staff over the weekend.

The city is exploring alternate ways to support its $46 billion flood resiliency plan, as the Trump effect makes funding even more precarious.

More than 1,000 EPA employees have filed individual grievances against the agency for seeking to end remote work and telework, according to the agency’s biggest union.

The EPA will stop focusing enforcement resources on methane emissions from oil and gas facilities and will be careful about using or relying on environmental justice considerations when taking enforce...

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A clean energy-focused financing organization that received EPA grant money targeted by the Trump administration sued Citibank NA on Monday, alleging breach of contract in freezing its accounts.

Fueled by demand for same-day delivery, facilities heavily trafficked by diesel trucks are moving into densely populated areas.

The EPA’s new internal watchdog told a House panel on Wednesday about chronic risks in the agency’s grantmaking, feeding into the Trump administration’s assertions about widespread government waste.

Federal workers must rent electric vehicles and use rail travel and public transit as much as possible under new guidance the Biden administration rolled out on Thursday.