Republicans Target 2016 Toxic-Chemicals Reforms, Alarmed Advocates Warn of Higher Risks for Consumers and Workers
A new Republican-backed bill in the U.S. House would rewrite key parts of the country’s main chemical safety law in ways that public-health and environmental advocates say would sharply reduce protections for consumers, workers, and ecosystems. It’s described as an attempt to roll back major reforms Congress made in 2016 to the Toxic Substances Control […]
Senate Democrats Demand Answers after EPA Drops “Dollar Value” for Lives Saved by Pollution Rules
More than three dozen Democratic senators have opened an inquiry into a major policy change at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that could reshape how the government justifies (and potentially weakens) air-pollution rules. The senators say the agency’s new approach is “particularly troubling” because it abandons a long-standing practice of putting a monetary value on […]
EPA Ends the 2009 Legal Basis for Regulating Greenhouse Gases, Prompting Swift Backlash and Lawsuits
Donald Trump’s administration has revoked the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” the scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and that underpinned federal climate rules for more than a decade. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials framed the move as a historic deregulatory step, while critics described it as a major rollback that will […]
