In a setback for clean water protections, the Supreme Court today invalidated EPA permitting requirements regulating water pollution, undermining the agency’s authority under the Clean Water Act to prevent pollution that harms human health and the environment.
Though more work must be done, the decision on a biodiversity finance mechanism may chart the right course to begin closing the biodiversity finance gap.
A dangerous new proposal from Houston-based Mexico Pacific, backed by J.P. Morgan along with oil and gas giants like Shell, ConocoPhillips, and ExxonMobil, would turn the Gulf of California—a World Heritage site—into a sacrifice zone to export climate-destroying liquified natural…
President Trump signed an executive order aimed at weakening environmental protections to make widespread commercial logging the guiding purpose of federal forest management.
The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity concluded with cautious optimism as nations adopted new measures to track and fund efforts to halt biodiversity loss.
According to published media reports, the Trump administration is considering the unprecedented move of putting political and policy strings on federal aid in response to the devastating Los Angeles fires.
President Trump said today that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to cut up to 65 percent of the agency's staff, an unprecedented move that would catastrophically weaken the EPA's ability to protect human health and the environment.
In response to an executive order from President Donald Trump, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin recommended striking down the agency's 2009 finding that climate change endangers human health and welfare.
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