U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Regan will play a critical role in supporting Biden’s aggressive plan to battle climate change and transition the U.S. economy to clean energy.

Automakers Daimler AG and subsidiary Mercedes-Benz USA have agreed to pay $1.5 billion to the U.S. government and California state regulators to resolve emissions cheating allegations

Residents in parts of two Montgomery County communities are being urged to boil their water until further notice due to a water main break.

Four towns in Bucks and Montgomery counties are getting some state financial support to help clean up water sources following years-long issues related to a nearby decommissioned military installation.

Little testing has been done to determine long-term health effects of the chemical PFAS, which has been found in the water of many towns after the Willow Grove Naval Air Station closed. Governor Wolf announced $3.8 million to be applied to the towns that have spent millions on clean up efforts.

President Trump’s environmental protection chief, Andrew Wheeler, visited a jet fuel refinery in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He talked about the savings to energy companies because of deregulation under Trump and the cleaner air since the Clean Air Act of 1970.

Questions about safety continue following the explosion at a South Philadelphia refinery. NBC10’s Lauren Mayk went to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to find out if neighbors nearby are safe.

The nation’s most productive agricultural state moved Wednesday to ban a controversial pesticide widely used to control a range of insects but blamed for harming brain development in babies.

Gov. Tom Wolf is stepping up the fight against climate change and setting targets to slash Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades in a heavily populated and fossil fuel-rich state that has long been one of the nation’s biggest polluters.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a notice of intent to sue on Thursday, warning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency it must hold Utah and Arizona accountable for missing deadlines to submit plans to clean up air pollution. The announcement came just as a new layer of dirty air settled in over Salt Lake City in the latest winter inversion,...

Torres, 27, sells his honey and provides beekeeping consulting services under the name Keystone Colonies. He is part of a growing group in the Philadelphia beekeeping community: millennials.

A jury’s $289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said Monsanto’s Roundup left him dying of cancer will bolster thousands of pending cases and open the door for countless people who blame their suffering on the weed killer, the man’s lawyers said. “I’m glad to be here to be able to help in a cause that’s way bigger...

Another lawsuit has been filed against an Arkansas-based poultry company accused of committing wastewater violations at a Delaware processing plant.

Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” series, have settled with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on allegations that they used inadequate protection while removing lead paint during renovations.

President Donald Trump prodded federal regulators Thursday to quicken processing of air quality permits for businesses, saying it would boost economic growth and job creation but drawing criticism from environmentalists who described the move as a green light for polluters. Among steps outlined in a White House memorandum to the Environmental Protection Agency were deadlines for acting on Clean Air...

Raw sewage is pouring into the rivers and reservoirs of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. People without running water bathe and wash their clothes in contaminated streams, and some islanders have been drinking water from condemned wells....
Nearly a month after the hurricane made landfall, Puerto Rico is only beginning to come to grips with a massive environmental...

Local governments have submitted well over 100 “notices of pollution” to the state Department of Environmental Protection since Hurricane Irma struck, some involving multiple spills and releases of millions of gallons of wastewater in various stages of treatment.

The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has the worst rate of drinking water violations of any U.S. jurisdiction, with dangerous contaminants in recent years ranging from lead to disinfectants to coliform bacteria, an environmental group said Wednesday. Nearly the entire island was supplied in 2015 with water from systems that violated the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act, according to a...

Thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes were released in the wild Tuesday near Key West, testing a new way to kill mosquitoes that carry Zika and other viruses. The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District released 20,000 male mosquitoes infected by the Kentucky-based company MosquitoMate with naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria. The offspring produced when the lab-bred mosquitoes mate with wild female mosquitoes won’t...

Along an ancient, storied English coastline 50 years ago, residents woke to an “evil-smelling” dark slick that smothered seabirds and coated the shore in thick tar from a wrecked U.S.-owned tanker, NBC News reported. Up to 872,300 barrels of oil — 38.6 million gallons — poured into the sea when the 120,000-ton super tanker “Torrey Canyon” took a shortcut and...