Rivers have relatively less protection than do land or oceans and we lack effective mechanisms for measuring protection. A ...

FILE - Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday will announce Lisa Garcia as the new commissioner of the city Department of Environmental ...

Water vapor rises from one of three stacks of a power station that stand above a tree line in winter. Water vapor rises from the stacks of a coal-fired power plant in southern Ohio in December 2025.

MAHA activists who want to hold corporations accountable for harming Americans’ health have found an unlikely ally in a Republican-led Environmental ...

For those who fight for environmental justice, recent changes made to federal policy rolls back efforts to protect residents in neighborhoods long burdened by industrial pollution, as well as stalls ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. President Trump said the head of the Environmental Protection ...

Former leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency who served under both Republican and Democratic presidents spoke Friday against the Trump administration's announcement this week that it will ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed on Thursday that 168 staff members in the Office of Environmental Justice were placed on administrative leave "as their function did not relate to ...