The Environmental Protection Agency

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The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes that choked the communities nearby. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.

In January 2020, Danny Ray started a complicated job with the Oklahoma agency that regulates oil and gas. The petroleum engineer who’d spent more than 40 years in the oil fields had been hired to help address a spreading problem, one that state regulators did not fully understand. 

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?

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Polluting plants

When the Environmental Protection Agency rolled back mercury regulations, it said the high cost wasn’t worth the small gain in safety. But this analysis looks different for the people who live nearby.

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EPA seeks more public comments as it struggles to devise water rule that limits scope on wetlands

The Environmental Protection Agency is seeking additional public comments as it tries to redefine the scope of the nation’s bedrock clean water law to significantly limit the wetlands it covers. Read More.

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EPA eliminates rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking a separate but related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants.

https://apnews.com/article/epa-power-plants-trump-coal-gas-climate-cac1c2c75f8656d8eaf5f0a240edae15?

🏭 The EPA is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. Go deeper.