The Environmental Protection Agency will issue regulations to protect workers from phthalates, chemicals found in plastics that are linked to health problems.

The agency says its top items are abolishing a key US climate rule and delaying vehicle emission standard enforcement ...

Li Cohen is a senior social media producer at CBS News. She previously wrote for amNewYork and The Seminole Tribune. She mainly covers climate, environmental and weather news. "Climate facts are back ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding over $616,000 in funding for two New Mexico tribes. Funds are ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday afternoon that ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration aims to cut around 65% of staff at the Environmental Protection ...

For the first time in the agency’s 55-year history, Congress has ceded its responsibility to oversee the EPA to a single ...

WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a "declaration of dissent" with its policies, accusing them of "unlawfully ...

Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling ...

EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- There are concerns from environmental groups and others about expanding cuts by the Environmental Protection Agency, and what they could mean across San Francisco Bay.

President Trump's efforts to overhaul the Environmental Protection Agency are being cheered by many in the fossil fuel industry who are critics of what they say is excessive regulation. But many, ...