Environmental Protection Agency

Pointing to permits in “regulatory limbo,” the Florida Department of Environmental Protection asked a judge for a partial stay of a ruling in a legal battle about a 2020 decision that shifted permitting authority from the federal government to the state for projects that affect wetlands.

His ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Endangered Species Act shifts power away from the state.

Health experts warn problems with these "underground poisonous straws" can strike suddenly, and states are getting cash to replace them. But no one knows how many lines exist or where they are.

The EPA loses some of its power to fight the climate crisis. Plus, how the legal back and forth on abortion access in Florida is playing out on the ground. And Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg remembers what it was like to debate Supre Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson back in their high school days.

The organizations say the federal agency failed to consider the impacts deep sea aquaculture would have on threatened and endangered species.

Former colleagues say David Uhlmann will work to make sure Americans can breathe clean air and drink safe water.

Two of the nation’s grid operators are warning the Environmental Protection Agency that enforcement of coal ash regulations poses risks to the reliability of electrical service over a large part of the country.

Environmentalists want Biden's Environmental Protection Agency to aggressively regulate huge piles of toxic coal ash across the nation. The waste has polluted groundwater in 39 states.

The EPA announced on Monday a plan that it says will yield $190 billion in net benefits by 2050.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife and the Save the Manatee Club filed a notice that is a precursor to suing the EPA. The notice said the EPA needs to start a process to reconsider whether water quality standards are adequate to protect manatees in the East Coast’s Indian River Lagoon, where many of the deaths have occurred.

Broward County is slated to open its new Forensic Science Center in 2026, with more than 130 staff members. The new build-out for the Medical Examiner and the Broward Sheriff's Office Crime Lab are unwelcome in a historically Black residential area of Fort Lauderdale.

Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates.