The Office of Research and Development produced the science underpinning regulations on everything from PFAS to pesticides to ...

President Donald Trump has issued a sweeping two-year exemption from new federal pollution rules for Dow and 24 other chemical manufacturing facilities citing national security and economic resilience ...

Just six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has moved quickly to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency in ways not seen over its 55-year history, drastically restructuring ...

The agency is closing the Office of Research and Development, which analyzes dangers posed by hazards including toxic ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

Environmental advocates say cutting the EPA's research office could have dire effects, especially when it comes to climate ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a reduction in its workforce and the closure of its scientific ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement that the changes announced Friday would ensure the agency “is better ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it was moving ahead with plans to axe its workforce by more than 3,700 ...

The White House has made sweeping changes at the Environmental Protection Agency. After a Supreme Court ruling allowed it to continue with widespread layoffs of federal employees, it moved to ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one. One summer day in 2017, a front-page story in the StarNews of Wilmington, ...

Congresswoman Betty McCollum voiced strong concerns over deep funding cuts and 72 partisan riders in the FY 2026 Interior-Environment bill. While praising bipartisan efforts to uphold tribal ...