Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released guidance that will allow oil and gas operators to continue routine flaring, a harmful practice that unnecessarily releases climate-warming methane and other dangerous pollutants into the air. Routine flaring was set to be phased out by May 7th after years of preparation.
Salt Lake City - The EPA on Tuesday proposed rescinding a Biden-era ruling to reclassify Utah's Wasatch Front from “serious” nonattainment of the 2015 ozone standards to mere “moderate” nonattainment, significantly decreasing required pollution reductions. The proposal downplays local emissions, shifting blame to foreign sources instead of reining in local emissions. EPA has issued similar proposed rulings in other states across the West.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A coalition of public health, environmental, and community advocates filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration's repeal of standards that limit brain-damaging mercury, lead, and other hazardous air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Since EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) took effect in 2015, they’ve driven down dangerous mercury pollution from power plants by more than 90%.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency dismantled a bedrock environmental and public health standard that protects Americans from mercury and other dangerous toxic air pollutants, such as arsenic, lead, and chromium.
This Thursday, the Trump Administration is expected to finalize three decisions that will significantly increase climate-warming and health-harming pollution across America, especially in Louisiana.
Salt Lake City – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely slash decades of environmental progress. Dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission to protect human health and the environment, Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have eliminated the EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding, limiting the agency’s authority to curb deadly greenhouse gas emissions.
Phoenix, AZ – Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of people throughout the country, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely gut decades of environmental progress.
NASHVILLE – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
ATLANTA – In a brazen assault on the health and welfare of the American public, the Trump administration finalized its rule revoking the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act. With the stroke of a pen, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has now formalized climate denialism as official government policy and moved to eliminate EPA’s ability to directly fight the climate crisis.
Fayetteville, Ark. – This Thursday, the Trump Administration is expected to finalize three decisions that will significantly increase climate-warming and health-harming pollution across America.
AUSTIN, Texas – This Thursday, the Trump Administration is expected to finalize three decisions that will significantly increase climate-warming and health-harming pollution across America, especially in the state of Texas.
Washington, D.C. - Today, the Trump administration released yet another coal industry handout by proposing to undo the Environmental Protection Agency’s previous disapproval of State Implementation Plans from states failing to meet their Clean Air Act obligations under the federal ozone air quality standard. Previously in 2023 the EPA had determined that most of these states had failed to meet their obligation to protect downwind states from significant smog-causing pollution, and had in 2024 proposed making the same determination for the others.