Saskatchewan, the second province to revoke a carbon tax, wants to "ensure that our industries ... are more competitive," its premier says.
The push is playing out as EPA also dangles the prospect of two-year exemptions from an array of recently strengthened air toxics rules.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US […]
"The scarcely visited museum cost a whopping $4 million taxpayer dollars to build in accordance with Smithsonian standards and more than $600,000 annually to operate," an EPA official said.
Head of Riverkeeper, which helped clean up Hudson River, talks about challenges during the second Trump term Donald Trump ’s push to repurpose the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amid funding cuts and staffing losses poses a huge threat to water safety and environmental advances in one of the big environmental success stories in the US in recent decades: the clean-up of the Hudson River. Once a byword for environmental degradation, the Hudson River is now recovering, in part due to the work of Riverkeeper, a non-profit environmental organization that established a model of legal activism for water protection and inspired more than 300 programs globally. It is also where Robert F Kennedy Jr cut his teeth as an environmental lawyer, before becoming a senior member of Trump’s rightwing...
Donald Trump's EPA says coal plants and other industrial polluters can ask to bypass provisions of the Clean Air Act by sending the agency an email.
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing entities subject to the Clean Air Act to seek exemptions via email through Monday while the agency reconsiders relevant rules.
Moe said the move will give consumers a break and make industries more competitive as the United States imposes tariffs on Canada.
Environmental Protection Agency workers from coast to coast devoted their lunch hours Tuesday to protecting planned cuts to reduce the size and scope of the federal agency.
The lawsuit comes as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has suggested walking back mandatory reporting for big polluters.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre launches his first campaign as party leader, promising a firm stance on U.S. tariffs and criticizing Liberal policies for weakening Canada's economy. Poilievre aims to reduce taxes, improve cost of living, and eliminate the carbon tax, while also addressing resource sector employment and crime reduction.
The Trump administration released details of canceled grants to groups that represent cement, wood and glass manufacturers. At least one hadn’t heard about it from EPA.
The scrutiny comes as Solar for All and other Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund programs face attacks from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
The government of the Northwest Territories is changing its carbon tax so that consumers will no longer pay. The change will mean lower prices at the pump and on bills for propane heating. The territory will also end its offset payments effective July 1.
Moves to roll back 31 pollution regulations risk public health and big annual healthcare savings, Guardian analysis shows A push by Donald Trump ’s administration to repeal a barrage of clean air and water regulations may deal a severe blow to US public health, with a Guardian analysis finding that the targeted rules were set to save the lives of nearly 200,000 people in the years ahead. Last week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) provoked uproar by unveiling a list of 31 regulations it will scale back or eliminate, including rules limiting harmful air pollution from cars and power plants; restrictions on the emission of mercury, a neurotoxin; and clean water protections for rivers and streams. Continue reading...
The potential layoffs listed in documents reviewed by Democrats are part of the White House'’s broader push to shrink the federal government The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to eliminate its scientific research office and could fire more than 1,000 scientists and other employees who help provide the scientific foundation for rules safeguarding human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants. As many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists – 75% of the research programme’s staff – could be laid off , according to documents reviewed by Democratic staff on the house committee on science, space and technology. Continue reading...
During the election campaign, the Progressive Conservatives promised to make the gas tax discount permanent — a policy the party says it will follow through on.
President Trump on Thursday assembled members of his Cabinet to plot out ways to reduce energy costs — one day after the Environmental Protection Agency took a sledgehammer to Biden-era regulations designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“I’m just really disturbed at the quality of these people that are coming into EPA,” said Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).
Activists horrified as EPA reverses pollution laws and reviews landmark finding that gases harm public health Donald Trump ’s administration is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’s climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways. Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade of pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it would potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health. Continue reading...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will narrow the definition of wetlands, rivers and other waterways that receive federal protections.
"You must end this campaign of lying to the public and coercing other agencies to assist you," Energy and Commerce Democrats said in a letter to EPA chief Lee Zeldin.
EPA attorneys are seeking review of a lower court ruling concerning the proper venue for litigation over Kentucky's smog control plan.
The EPA plan would dismantle a planned rule to strengthen safeguards at almost 12,000 chemical plants.
The Tennessee nonprofit that was awarded funding to reduce lead in low-income homes is now linked to the EPA attack on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
The EPA gave out $20 billion to environmental justice and green credit groups that had barely registered with the IRS.
The ruling could increase the workload of EPA and state permitting offices to enforce the Clean Water Act, at a time when the Trump administration is demanding deep budget cuts.
EDF Files Lawsuit to Get Records About EPA Administrator’s Recommendation to Reverse Endangerment Finding
EPA spokesperson Molly Vaseliou said in an email Monday that "the directory has consistently been a source of incorrect information."
It’s long past time for the entire West to admit it: Its war on climate, best symbolized by 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, has proved a disaster — wrecking economies and worsening lives with little impact on climate.
Workers describe projects on wildfire prevention, environmental restoration and trail repair halted by Trump administration terminations. The post How DOGE threatens the Forest Service and public lands appeared first on High Country News.
EPA alumni are launching a campaign to safeguard the agency, and some employees are "furious."
The EPA says crews have finished the first phase of hazardous household debris removal from the Palisades and Eaton fire zones, meeting the 30-day deadline set by the Trump administration.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for a rewrite of the agency’s finding that determined planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
News Reports: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Wants to Strike Down EPA’s Endangerment Finding
The Trump administration is weighing whether to repeal the “endangerment finding,” which states that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare.
[Liberian Observer] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed its investigation into the deadly explosion at Sethi Ferro Fabrik's Oxygen Plant that led to the death of an employee.
Exclusive: The ‘deeply troubling’ move comes amid concerns US ignoring international climate ramifications US officials have missed recent international climate forums sparking concerns about a potentially significant shift from Donald Trump’s first term, a review of meeting records and interviews with meeting attendees by the Centre for Climate Reporting and the Guardian show. On his first day back as president, Trump signed an executive order on stage in front of supporters at an arena in Washington DC which he said was aimed at quitting what he called the “unfair one-sided Paris climate accord rip off”. Trump’s exit from the Paris agreement means the US will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries outside the international agreement adopted in 2015 to limit global warming. ...
Former federal employees devastated by president’s mass firings: ‘We’re at risk of losing our public lands to the billionaire agenda’ Approximately 2,300 people have been terminated from the agencies that manage the 35m acres (14m hectares) of federal public lands in the US. These are our lands. They encompass national parks and forests, wilderness and marine protected areas, scenic rivers. They are home to campgrounds, river accesses, hiking trails and myriad other sites and facilities that more than 500 million people visit each year. Continue reading...
[Liberian Investigator] Capitol Hill -- The Liberian Senate has summoned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ministries of Mines & Energy and Internal Affairs to address the alarming water pollution caused by gold mining activities in Sinoe County. The pollution, allegedly driven by the operations of foreign nationals, has raised significant environmental and public health concerns.
It's the Trump administration's latest escalation against the climate fund created by the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act.
Demonstrators have protested against an expedited cleanup process that would involve using a beloved beach as a toxic waste sorting site This weekend, more than a hundred demonstrators protested against a new plan by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use a local beach as a toxic waste sorting site, to process debris from the Palisades fire. They waved signs saying “Save Our Beaches” and “Sort Toxics at the Burn Site” as they walked up and down the path along Will Rogers state beach in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, just outside Los Angeles . Their message? Wildfire debris isn’t just ash – it’s poison. “Asbestos, heavy metals, dioxins and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons will not remain contained,” a petition circulated by a local resident, Ashley Oelsen, says. “Toxic...
A $20 billion Biden administration green-energy slush fund was collecting interest at a private bank and is being distributed without proper oversight, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin reveals in an exclusive interview. President Joe Biden’s EPA parked $20 billion at the financial institution, which The Post has learned is Citibank, as part of the...
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has identified where $20 billion of climate-related funds purposefully wasted by the Biden administration landed.
Learn about two studies that anticipate a fast-approaching breach of the Paris Agreement, as temperatures on Earth begin to trend toward 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels.
Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash Kiwi exporters who invest in complying with the EU’s carbon tax reporting will be at a competitive advantage, according to MFAT.
The Trump administration placed at least 160 Environmental Protection Agency employees on paid leave Thursday evening effective immediately.
by Sharon Lerner and Pratheek Rebala ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the face of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reshape the Environmental Protection Agency and drive out its workers, more than 300 career employees have left their jobs since the election, according to a ProPublica analysis of personnel data. The numbers account for a relatively small share of the overall workforce at the EPA, but those who have departed include specialist civil...
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia has celebrated World Wetlands Day 2025 in Marshall City, Margibi County, under the theme "Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future." The event aimed to raise awareness about the critical role wetlands play in environmental conservation and economic activities such as fishing, farming, and tourism.
Request by the Environmental Protection Agency to process hazardous waste from the Palisades fire near Malibu City Hall faces protest.
Seasonal workers who are key to running national parks in the summer have had job offers rescinded.
Staff outside D.C. headquarters respond to funding freeze and other orders from the new administration. The post ‘They’ll have to drag me out before I go.’ EPA workers stand firm despite Trump chaos appeared first on High Country News.
The administration is moving at speed to fill out its roster of 10 EPA regional administrators.
The Republican-controlled Senate has confirmed Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
North Dakota sued the Interior Department at least five times under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now he’s set to run the agency. The post Trump’s nominee for leading Interior attempted to rip up rules governing public lands appeared first on High Country News.
Photo by Kevin Luke on Unsplash President Donald Trump's move withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement has been greeted with criticism in Aotearoa, with experts and politicians voicing concern.
As U.S. President Donald Trump plans to pull out of international bodies and agreements, such as the World Health Organization and the Paris climate accord, China is capitalizing on the opportunity to fill a void left by the U.S. on the world stage, analysts say.
Amid a series of executive orders, President Trump warned of 100% tariffs on Brics nations if trade remains unbalanced, incorrectly mentioned Spain as a member. He also signed notable actions like withdrawing from the Paris Accord, ending birthright citizenship, and renaming the Gulf of Mexico, sparking legal and international challenges.
The cabinet on Tuesday agreed to levy a carbon tax of 200 baht per ton of carbon emissions as part of the country’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said Deputy Finance Minister Paopoom Rojanasakul.
China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements -- the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord -- after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.
Calgary drivers were happy to see a drop in fuel prices on Tuesday - as the end of the federal Consumer Carbon Tax took effect.
[Liberian Observer] The Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), in collaboration with the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) and other key stakeholders, has launched a composting site at Jorkpen Town Market under the Solid Waste Management Transformative Pilot Project. This initiative aims to tackle the city's waste crisis by turning organic waste into valuable compost, reducing landfill waste, and promoting sustainable waste management practices.
After soaring over the weekend, gas prices in B.C. are expected to come down 18.5 per cent as the province's consumer carbon tax is phased out.
The Trump administration and California are on the same side when it comes to a particular challenge of the state's auto emissions standards.
Detail not yet clear about new nature watchdog plan, which comes after previous attempt drew backlash from Western Australia Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaign Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has confirmed the federal environmental protection agency he has promised to establish if elected would not be “the same model” as the one he promised but failed to legislate during this term of government. In his first public comments about reviving the nature watchdog plan, Albanese confirmed Labor would pursue a different model in consultation with the states, industry and environmental groups. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...
The group submitted answers to 35 questions from the agency, which is attempting to claw back $20 billion tied to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’ The US could be plunged back into an era of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the Donald Trump administration’s rollback of pollution protections, the scientist who discovered the existence of acid rain in North America has warned. A blitzkrieg launched by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on clean air and water regulations could revert the US to a time when cities were routinely shrouded in smog and even help usher back acid rain, according to Gene Likens, whose experiments helped identify acidic rainwater in the 1960s. Continue reading...
by Sharon Lerner and Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Although it was too late for him to benefit, Daniel Kinel felt relieved in December when the Environmental Protection Agency finally banned TCE. The compound, which has been used for dry cleaning, manufacturing and degreasing machines, can cause cancer, organ damage and a potentially fatal heart defect in babies, according to independent studies and the EPA. It has also been shown to greatly increase...
According to an internal email, EPA officials knew they had no contractual right to cancel some grants. They did it anyway.
[Liberian Investigator] Buchanan -- In a major step toward legislative engagement in climate governance, the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA), with support from the Government of Canada through NovaSphere, opened a high-level Climate Learning and Exchange Forum for members of the Liberian Senate under the theme, "Advancing Legislative Actions for Climate Mitigations in Liberia."
The Trump EPA is delaying deadlines under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders say they want to better understand how EPA managed its funds “to escape oversight.”
The legacy and words left by the committed and compassionate politician carry forward with public servants across the world. The post Raúl Grijalva: A patriot for public lands appeared first on High Country News.
Zelenskyy says he will contact US president to discuss the call with Russian leader following the attack. Plus, dolphins welcome Nasa astronauts back to Earth Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Russia attacked Ukraine with kamikaze drones and S-300 surface-to-air missiles overnight, Ukrainian authorities said, hours after Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump he would sign up to a partial and temporary ceasefire. What has Volodymyr Zelenskyy said? The Ukrainian president said he would contact Trump today to discuss the call with Putin, adding that the “next steps cannot be done without us”. What could be repealed? One of the most consequential actions will see the EPA reconsider a landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases harm human health...
The Environmental Protection Agency can't have back climate grants issued during the Biden administration, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, but the grantees cannot access the money either.
EDF statement from Sarah Vogel, Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities
Learn about the precarious state of satellites orbiting Earth, as greenhouse gas pollution puts them in danger of colliding and creating space debris.
In the Florida Everglades, NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign investigates the relationship between tropical wetlands and greenhouse gases.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday plans to reconsider more than two dozen rules. And, astronauts "stranded" on the International Space Station may be able to return to Earth.
EPA Administrator Zeldin’s Plan Will Increase Pollution in Daily Lives
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called it the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
The cuts are part of a plan to slash 65 percent of the agency’s spending, said EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
Move comes even as Trump has tried to show that Musk’s cost-slashing agency doesn’t have the final say The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has issued new guidance directing that spending items greater than $50,000 now require approval from Elon Musk ’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), even as Donald Trump began putting some distance between Musk’s reach and the power of government department heads – at least over job cuts. “Any assistance agreement, contract or interagency agreement transaction [valued at] $50,000 or greater must receive approval from an EPA DOGE team member,” the EPA guidance says, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press. The EPA did not respond to a request from the news agency on Friday for comment. Continue reading...
The recently discovered slush fund that was parked at Citibank was last altered on Jan. 13 — a week before President Trump’s inauguration — and quickly doled out to a handful of far-left climate nonprofits with little oversight from the EPA, Zeldin said Thursday.
A coalition of nonprofits urged the EPA chief Tuesday to lift a freeze on money it got in August from a fund to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The Trump EPA wanted to reconsider its position in defense of the Biden administration rule.
EDF Files Lawsuit to Get Records on Vital EPA, State Clean Vehicle Safeguards
The president has backed RFK Jr.’s goal to clamp down on chemical exposures, but he has stocked EPA with industry-linked deregulatory champions.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces a legal challenge after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in a road project late last year. The Center for Biological Diversity filed the challenge on February 19 in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals under the Clean Air Act. The advocacy group says the federal agency has prohibited […]
Some nonprofits are struggling to pay their employees as EPA tries to claw back the Inflation Reduction Act funding.
Lawmakers are escalating their protests following news EPA wants to undo a finding allowing the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Prices for carbon allowances are trading at $12.49 less per ton than at this time last year.
The president also said EPA has found "a lot of people that didn't exist" at the agency but did not elaborate.
President Donald Trump appears to welcome the EPA boss’ plan to cut most of the agency’s workforce.
Some 1,000 NPS employees were fired, and hiring for seasonal positions was delayed. Here's what to know about the impacts already being felt at parks, and what it could mean for the busy season.
The Liberal Party of Canada will soon choose a leader that will replace Justin Trudeau and become Canada's next prime minister.
National parks can require visitors to pay for admissions with credit or debit cards.
EPA has been silent about the frozen funds. Nonprofit grant recipients say the agency and bank have been mum about what's happening.
Scott Mason IV is the new administrator for the EPA region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and 66 Tribal Nations.
The agency said it has briefed the White House on the legality of abandoning a 2009 scientific finding that underpins all greenhouse gas rules.
The annual “Conservation in the West” poll also found that voters prefer conservation over energy development on public lands.
[Liberian Investigator] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia, in collaboration with Novasphere, has launched a one-week geospatial training program aimed at enhancing forest monitoring capabilities.
The new EPA chief wants to claw back cash from a Biden administration green banking program. It could spur a court fight.
“Shockingly, roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA,” Zeldin said. “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.”
Current and former EPA staff say millions of Americans could lose access to clean air and water.
This change may be part of the EU’s upcoming “omnibus” legislation, which is designed to slash reporting rules for businesses.
New EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s pillars pledge to help auto industry and have no mention of the climate crisis A new and starkly different vision for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been outlined by the Trump administration – one that involves mass staff cuts, an influx of industry lobbyists and, unusually, the promotion of artificial intelligence as a key agency priority. A set of five “pillars” issued by new EPA administrator Lee Zeldin to guide the agency, set up under Richard Nixon in 1970 to protect US public health and the environment, does include one referencing “clean land, air and water for every American”. Continue reading...
Guardian review of new political appointees also finds president is largely reappointing officials from his first term Donald Trump is stacking his proposed Environmental Protection Agency leadership with former industry lobbyists, executives, and attorneys who have spent their careers attacking protections covering everything from water quality to greenhouse gas emissions to toxic chemicals. A Guardian review of new political appointees also finds the president is largely reappointing officials from his first term. Since 2016, while working at the EPA or for industry, environmental campaigners say these veterans have led efforts to shred Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, kneecap drinking water limits for toxic PFAS, ram through new chemicals without proper review, undo an asbestos ban, or...
The Interior secretary on his first day on the job signed orders to increase energy production, review Biden administration moves on public lands and slash regulation.
Thailand is set to implement a carbon tax this month as part of its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote environmental sustainability.
Toxic chemicals from L.A.'s fires are going under-reported and pose serious long-term risks, a group of lawmakers say. They want the EPA to create a task force.
Stan Meiburg, who served 39 years at EPA, led the university’s sustainability center for more than two years.
The proposal stemmed from a court ruling requiring the Forest Service to get permission from EPA to drop fire suppressants around waterways.
Research provides more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to toxic ‘forever chemicals’ Produce grown in home gardens around a North Carolina PFAS plant contain dangerous levels of the chemicals, new research has found, providing more evidence that food is a potentially overlooked exposure route to the compounds, especially when grown near polluters. The study’s authors say findings point to much of the contamination resulting from air emissions, which research increasingly suggests is an underestimated source of PFAS pollution. Continue reading...
[SAnews.gov.za] The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has called on the United States of America to take its commitments under international law seriously, and carefully consider the ramifications of its intended withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
The biggest impact on global emissions will be from the new president’s deregulatory agenda.
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed a series of measures to remove the United States from the Paris Agreement as part of 200 executive orders.
The Trump Administration withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, a major disservice to the American people, to the economy, and U.S. credibility.
A new map has revealed that up to 25 percent of Americans live in areas where radon levels are considered unsafe by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Are YOU in the danger zone?
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration on Monday announced the United States' intention to withdraw from the Paris climate accord for a second time, a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify worldwide.