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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks with reporters on Feb. 18 at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup

By Phil McKenna
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting

By Liza Gross
A freeze in a federal loan program affects nonprofits across the country, including one in Fort Wayne, Ind., where David de Leon is construction manager. His organization works to restore old houses for use by low-income families. Credit: Rachel Von Art/Inside Climate News

How We Got a Green Bank, How Trump Is Trying to Kill It and Who Gets Hurt

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, founder and CEO of Dayenu, speaks at a Jewish climate action event in New York City on Sept. 12, 2021. Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Green New Deal Network

Faith Leaders Push Back After EPA Head Disparages Climate Action as ‘Religion’

By James Bruggers
In Washington Township, Mich., a gas pipeline in wetlands in Stony Creek Metropark. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

New Study Shows Extreme and Far-Reaching Impacts of Sackett Ruling on Federal Wetland Protections

By Lauren Dalban
An oil refinery operates next to a neighborhood of homes in Wilmington, Calif. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

EPA Deregulation Would Be a ‘Tragedy’ for Health, Experts Say

By Keerti Gopal
EPA contractors work to remove hazardous waste from beachfront properties destroyed in the Palisades Fire along the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 18 in Malibu, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Christine Todd Whitman Thinks the EPA Is Going the Wrong Direction

Interview by Steve Curwood and Paloma Beltran
Congressmembers speak to a crowd during a demonstration in front of the EPA headquarters on Feb. 6 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

EPA Freezes, Then Terminates, Multi-Billion Dollar Climate Grants, Scuttling Projects and Triggering Lawsuits

By Aman Azhar
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is seen before President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol on March 4. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection

By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
An aerial view of flood damage wrought by Hurricane Helene along the Swannanoa River on Oct. 3, 2024 in Asheville, N.C. There were 27 confirmed weather and climate disasters last year with losses exceeding $1 billion in the United States. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Trump, EPA Aim to Remove Finding That Mandates Action on Greenhouse Gas Pollution

By Marianne Lavelle
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 26 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

EPA Would Shrink to 1970 Staffing Levels—‘When the Skies Were Dark With Smog’—Under Proposed Plan

By Marianne Lavelle
President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Feb. 14. Trump was joined by (from left) EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Climate and Environmental Justice Programs Stalled by Trump Freeze, Despite Court Orders

By Marianne Lavelle, Dylan Baddour, Lisa Sorg, Nicholas Kusnetz
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recently called grants from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund reckless spending. Credit: Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Officials Blast Effort to Rescind Climate Funds, Calling It a Political ‘Smokescreen’

By Aman Azhar
Duke Energy’s STAR facility burns coal ash to be reused in cement in Goldsboro, N.C. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Duke Energy Promised to Limit Emissions at Four New Gas Plants. It’s Already Back-Tracking

By Lisa Sorg
Lee Zeldin, who won Senate confirmation on Wednesday to head the EPA, speaks during his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Jan. 16 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Reset or Purge? Trump EPA Dismisses Agency Science Advisers

By Marianne Lavelle
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) joins Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Grappone Convention Center on Jan. 19 in Concord, N.H. Getty: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Environmental Activists Are Alarmed by Trump’s Picks to Run the EPA, the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Trump’s Top Staff Choices Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences for the Climate

By Kiley Price
Former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (right) participates in a roundtable discussion with President-elect Donald Trump on Oct. 29 in Drexel Hill, Pa. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA Pick, Brings a Moderate Face to a Radical Game Plan

By Marianne Lavelle

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