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EPA Rollbacks Could Raise AC, Refrigeration Costs Despite Promise of Lower Prices

A new Trump administration rule will likely cost consumers more money while creating higher emissions of climate-warming superpollutants, industry and environmental groups warn.

By Phil McKenna

President Donald Trump is joined by grocery store owners and supermarket corporation executives as he announces regulatory rollbacks on chemical refrigerants at the White House on May 21. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
An aerial view of a coal ash pond in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Turn Out in Force to Oppose Trump Coal Ash Rollbacks

By Arcelia Martin

An aerial view of the nearly 600-acre coal ash pond at Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Alabama Coal Ash Lawsuit Can Continue, Appeals Court Rules

By Dennis Pillion

Used EVs sit on a sales lot on March 30 in West Covina, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

EPA Claims ‘Overwhelming Rejection’ of EVs as It Moves to Loosen Air Pollution Rules

By Anika Jane Beamer

Aerial view of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Cumberland Fossil Plant in Cumberland City, Tenn. White emissions billow from stacks at the plant.

The Tennessee Valley Authority Produced a Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks. Top Researchers Call it ‘Dishonest.’ 

By Dennis Pillion

The construction site of a data center developed by Related Digital for Oracle and OpenAI is seen on May 6 in Saline, Mich. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Seeks Looser Construction Rules for Gas Plants, Data Centers and Factories

By Charles Paullin

EPA staff visit a Superfund site in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., on Jan. 30, 2024. Credit: Jane Tyska/East Bay Times via Getty Images

New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups

By Anna Mattson

Earlier this month, the EPA proposed for the first time to include microplastics and pharmaceuticals on a list of contaminants in drinking water. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

At Water Week 2026, Local Leaders See a Glimmer of Hope

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Children play in a park as the skyline of New York City is shrouded by a hazy sky on July 18, 2023. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air

By Keerti Gopal

“Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

By Liza Gross

A chemical fire continues to burn at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. on March 19, 2019, in Deer Park, Texas. Credit: Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.

By Liza Gross

Lee Zeldin, keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 16th International Conference on Climate Change, thanks attendees for electing Donald Trump. Credit: Gabriel Castilho/Inside Climate News

Zeldin Celebrates Endangerment Finding Repeal With Climate Skeptics

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Demonstrators march during a “Hands off the EPA” rally outside the agency’s offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., on April 22, 2025. Credit: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s Budget Proposes Massive Cuts for Climate and Environmental Programs

By Dylan Baddour

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin (left) and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announce the EPA’s draft Contaminant Candidate List on Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

EPA Flags Microplastics as ‘Priority’ Water Contaminants, but the Move Doesn’t Guarantee Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer

After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling 

By James Bruggers

Soybeans are unloaded from a lorry at a biodiesel complex in Santa Fe, Argentina. Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump Administration’s New Biofuels Targets Threaten Carbon-Rich Rainforests

By Georgina Gustin

A grain bin stands in a corn field in Marne, Iowa. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

As Prices Soar, EPA Greenlights Higher Ethanol Blends in Gasoline

By Georgina Gustin

Sen. Susan Collins enters the U.S. Captiol on Jan. 27 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

Susan Collins and Climate Change: ‘The Silence is Deafening’

By Nathaniel Eisen

The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is seen on Dec. 30, 2025. Credit: Heather Diehl/Getty Images

One Year After Green Bank’s Demise, Court Mulls Future of Grant-Based Climate Policy

By Marianne Lavelle

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