The cover of Protecting the Environment: A Half Century of Progress contains a split photo, the left half showcasing the horrific smog of 1960s Los Angeles, the right showing the Cuyahoga River in ...

FILE - PPL's Brunner Island coal-fired plant, on the west bank of Susquehanna River, in York Haven, Pa. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 3, 2025) After a series of legal setbacks for the nation’s cornerstone law of environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Beyond Pesticides has ...

It's safe to say the Trump administration has shaken up the federal government. Environmental policy and the Environmental Protection Agency are no exception. President Richard Nixon founded the EPA ...

File photo: The cooling towers of Exelon Corporation's Limerick Generating Station nuclear power plant are seen next to the Schuylkill River in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, November 26, 2020.

Elin Betanzo was suspended for months and then dismissed from a federal drinking water advisory council after signing a dissent petition.

The National Environmental Policy Act has not been immune to changes since President Richard Nixon signed it into law 55 years ago. Under the direction of President Donald Trump and Republicans in ...

On Jan. 15, the EPA published a final rule to limit nitrogen oxide (NOX) emissions from turbines used at gas power plants and ...

(The Center Square) – Despite the subject being in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, Pennsylvania has doubled down on its environmental justice efforts with a final policy launched Saturday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling narrowing the federal government's authority regulating bodies of water and effectively upending a Biden administration policy that recently went into ...

I’m wondering why we even have an Environmental Protection Agency. If protecting human life is not the main goal of the EPA, ...

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a "declaration of dissent" with its policies, accusing them of "unlawfully ...