The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.

A year into Trump’s second term, critics say the EPA is rolling back dozens of protections and giving a leg up to polluters ...

The agency's new math to favor polluters, explained.

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and ...

Trump team accused of lowering the value of a human life from millions to ‘zero’ dollars: report - For decades, the ...

Human health will no longer be factored into US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cost-benefit calculations of air pollution. Instead, costs to industry will be the EPA’s focus when assessing the ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, its ...

One Health is a simple but powerful idea: The health of people, animals, and the environment are linked. When one area has a ...

Lowell, passed its committee Monday 5-3 along party lines, heading to the Senate Appropriations Committee, but testifiers were left questioning if its purpose is economic growth or actual protection ...

The change means the EPA will focus rules for two pollutants only on the cost to industry, part of a realignment under President Trump toward a business-friendly approach.

Astrid Puentes’s journey from Bogotá to the UN is shaped by a deep awareness of how environmental harm often mirrors social injustice. Early in her legal career, she confronted cases where pollution ...