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Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals

5:00am June 18, 2025

Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda, which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cut funds, grants and regulations that support that goal.

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The Environmental Protection Agency delays limits on PFAS in drinking water

5:07pm May 14, 2025

Federal rules to reduce the levels of "forever chemicals" in drinking water are getting delayed.

Energy Star, efficiency program that has steered consumer choice, targeted in cuts

7:46pm May 07, 2025

An Environmental Protection Agency plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices would end a decades-old program that gave consumers a choice to buy environmentally friendly electronics and save money on bills, consumer and environmental groups said.

The Trump administration says it will cut EPA staffing to Reagan-era levels

9:15pm May 02, 2025

EPA announced plans to reorganize the agency, moving science-focused staff into different roles and reducing the overall number of employees.

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Politics & Government

Power outage prompts letter to High Point water customers two months later

3:06pm March 24, 2025

by Paul Garber

High Point officials mailed notices last week to water customers to let them know that a January power outage had affected operations at one of the city’s treatment facilities.

EPA says it will roll back climate rules. That could prove complicated

12:15pm March 13, 2025

Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn't undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA's announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the rules and policies it targeted.

EPA employees who work on environmental justice are put on leave

11:32pm February 06, 2025

A majority of employees who work in the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been put on paid leave effective immediately. They all work on environmental justice issues or on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go

12:24am January 29, 2025

Acting EPA Administrator James Payne sent an email to members of the agency's Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee informing them that both are being "reset."

Supreme Court refuses to interfere in EPA litigation, for now

5:01pm October 16, 2024

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented while two other conservatives wrote that they may be sympathetic to the case were it to be brought after a lower court ruling.

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National

Supreme Court refuses, for now, to block new EPA rules to fight climate change

4:21pm October 04, 2024

The justices, in a break from the way they have handled most such cases in the recent past, told the challengers to first litigate their claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.