The Environmental Protection Agency aims to rewrite protections against air, water, and chemical pollutants. But that’s easier said than done.

Environmental justice was patching over gaps in federal law that allowed for zones of concentrated harms.

US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced a wave of environmental rollbacks targeting Biden-era green policies. Watch this report for more details!

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health.

The EPA administrator says he is rolling back dozens of environmental rules, including those crucial to California programs on climate change and electric vehicles, and closing offices that worked to lower pollution in poor communities.

The agency announced Wednesday that it will begin the process of dismantling dozens of Biden-era rules for electric vehicles, power plants, clean water and more.