As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when ...

Soot emissions from power plants rose nearly 20 percent above average when enforcement stalled during the shutdown seven years ago.

Miller of the Treated Wood Council (“TWC”) posing certain requests/guidance related to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) hazardous waste regulations. The Interpretive Letter first ...

Using what environmental groups dubbed the “inbox from hell,” EPA in March opened the door for industries to apply for the ...

Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin on June 11, 2025, announced a proposed rule titled “Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced plans to roll back Biden-era regulations designed to address mercury air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. If ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday two major proposals that would weaken pollution standards for fossil-fuel power plants as part of the Trump administration’s effort to revive ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will aim to eliminate existing limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants, a move that would curb the ...

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill in January before his confirmation (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) EPA is killing a Biden-era ...

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency issued new regulations this month that will save many coal and natural gas power plants from closure. To prevent them from being unnecessarily ...

After only about 50 years and billions and billions more pounds of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, the EPA on Friday will introduce a limit on the amount of pollution new coal power plants ...