U.S. Environmental Protection Agency News

The PBF Energy refinery in Paulsboro, N.J., uses toxic chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid.

Are you uncertain about which CAD cells are which in New Bedford Harbor? The increased number of confined aquatic disposal cells has led to some confusion about which are where and what's in them.

Reason and cool heads have prevailed at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Gina McCarthy 's nomination to lead the Environmental Protection Agency has been advanced to the Senate for a vote.

The Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general has been asked to look into claims that the agency stymied efforts by conservative groups to obtain government records while giving favorable treatment to environmental groups.

The downtown landscape will soon be adding two new hotels, but elected officials and business leaders have differing opinions on what the new projects mean for the future of a convention center property.

Obama scandals dominating the news about how the administration failed our Libyan delegation at Benghazi, about how the IRS targeted conservative groups, and about administration spying on the Associated Press, now have another contender.

The EPA took testimony on the appeal during a pair of hearings in Bismarck on Wednesday.

Under President Obama, two women have been the director of the Environmental Protection Agency , Carol Browner, who served in the Clinton administration and was one of the " czars " Obama appointed; her acolyte Lisa Jackson, and up for the post is Gina McCarthy.

Congressman Rick Nolan has issued a sharply-worded letter to the Environmental Protection Agency's regional administrator taking issue with the agency's comments regarding two controversial highway projects in the region.

A Senate committee voted along party lines on Thursday to send President Barack Obama's controversial nominee for secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.

President Barack Obama announces the nominations of, from left, Ernest Moniz as Energy Secretary, Gina McCarthy as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, and Sylvia Mathews Burwell as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in the East Room of the White House, March 4, 2013.

Environmental activists across Florida have been waiting more than two years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to land a serious body blow against the state's enforcement branch.

More than a hundred people, a dozen strollers and a few dogs lined up and marched about halfway around the Allied landfill site in Kalamazoo Wednesday night chanting - "What do we want? Cleanup! When do we want it? Now!" The landfill isn't a typical landfill; it's where a paper mill dumped decades worth of waste that's laced with cancer causing ... (more)

And when it does, Portland gardeners will be faced with getting water to their blueberry bushes, rows of carrots and snap peas.

With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Biotech giant Monsanto faced a surprising setback after federal authorities refused to approve a new generation of genetically-engineered crops that could survive an unprecedented use of herbicides.

Easier being green. The IRS is not the only federal agency making it difficult for conservative groups.

The fact that my childhood hero is turning 60 today is just yet another remind of how old I'm... It is dense, moist and rich, with a crunchy crust from its long, slow bake in a 325-degree oven.

A University of Delaware-led study has found that decades-old federal standards overestimate current poultry industry contributions to water pollution.

Alexandria's water complies with or was better than all state and federal drinking water requirements, according to the 2012 annual water quality report from Virginia American Water, which serves Alexandria.