In the 20 years following the 1970 Clean Air Act, the EPA estimated the measures saved anywhere between $5.6 trillion and $49.4 trillion in health, welfare, environmental, and productivity costs.

Before President Nixon created the EPA in 1970, water and air pollution weren't federally regulated. The Trump administration is aiming to roll back environmental regulations and lay off EPA staff ...

Policymakers have implemented a number of regulations over the past several decades to minimize environmental pollution and its effects on public health. Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental ...

Americans of all stripes value clean air, clean water and a healthy environment. Republicans and Democrats depend equally on the EPA to safeguard their families from pollution.

Rules regulating those seven air toxic pollutants, along with more than 180 others, have been in place since 1990 when Congress passed a major amendment to the Clean Air Act that greatly increased ...

Dr. Childs, currently a fellow at Harvard’s Center for the Environment and School of Public Health, had originally intended to focus on the health effects of fire-related air pollution.

A proposed change to California’s Constitution seeks to make clean air and water a right, along with a healthy environment. Here, wildfire smoke obscures the skyline of downtown Los Angeles in ...

Twin Rivers Technologies will pay $721,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging Clean Air and Clean Water Act violations. The Conservation Law Foundation alleged Twin Rivers released pollutants into the ...

Senate overturns EPA rule on seven highly toxic air pollutants. If also passed by the House as expected, the action will be the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

Wed, March 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM UTC This cylindrical air purifier is only 6 inches wide and 9 inches tall, but don't let its little size fool you. It has enough power to clean the air in a 215 ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday its intent to undo more than two dozen major environmental regulations dealing with greenhouse gas emissions, toxic air pollution and ...

Biden is trying to weaponize the Clean Air Act on his way out of the White House by John Shu, opinion contributor - 01/04/25 10:00 AM ET ...