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News Articles: Environmental Protection Agency

Many objects, like this bottle, have been unearthed in Elizabeth Burns’ lead-contaminated Atlanta yard.

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Lead contamination surfaces in affluent Atlanta neighborhood

The Environmental Protection Agency recently confirmed high lead levels in an upscale Atlanta neighborhood. The location stands in contrast to many polluted sites investigated by the federal Superfund program — often in former industrial or waste disposal areas where environmental racism has left marginalized groups at risk.

May 05, 2023
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  • Andy Miller
A sign touting the Inflation Reduction Act is seen at Glynwood Boat House in Cold Spring, N.Y., on Aug. 17, 2022.

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  • Politics

The EPA's watchdog is warning about oversight for billions in new climate spending

The Environmental Protection Agency received billions from President Biden's climate legislation, but the EPA inspector general warns there is "a high risk for fraud, waste and abuse."

April 01, 2023
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  • Eric McDaniel
A smokestack stands at a coal plant on June 22, 2022, in Delta, Utah. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule Wednesday to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution they can't control. (

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  • Environment

The EPA's new 'good neighbor' rule targets downwind pollution by power plants

Nearly two-dozen states will have to cut harmful industrial emissions of nitrogen oxide and other pollutants, improving air quality for millions of people living in downwind communities.

March 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A truck sprays water on part of the burning landfill during the EPA's work to smother the site in dirt.

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  • Environment

A months-long landfill fire in Alabama reveals waste regulation gaps

An unregulated landfill that accepts vegetative waste has burned underground for months. Neighbors were inundated with smoke and left wondering why the site wasn't regulated in the first place.

March 13, 2023
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  • Zoe McDonald
Residents of southwest Pakistan move through floodwaters in September 2022. People with less wealth are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including more severe rainstorms.

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  • Climate

Why the EPA puts a higher value on rich lives lost to climate change

There is one number that the Environmental Protection Agency relies on to decide which climate policies to pursue. So why does that number assume the lives of richer people are worth more?

February 08, 2023
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Recent findings about the pollution of waterways near oil refineries underscore health and environmental dangers.

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  • Climate

Oil refineries release lots of water pollution near communities of color, data show

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution into waterways each year, according to regulatory data. NPR found that pollution is concentrated near places where people of color live.

January 27, 2023
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  • Rebecca Hersher
A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen in August 2021 on a well pad near Watford City, N.D.

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  • Climate

Biden tightens methane emissions rules, even as the U.S. pushes for more oil drilling

Oil and gas production is the nation's largest industrial source of methane, the main component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.

November 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Water contaminated with arsenic, lead and zinc flows from a pipe out of the Lee Mountain mine and into a holding pond near Rimini, Mont., in 2018. It's part of the Upper Tenmile Creek Mining Area Superfund site

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  • Environment

The EPA begins rolling out billions to clean up Superfund sites

Starting with $1 billion, the EPA announced that 23 states and Puerto Rico would be getting money to clean up Superfund sites in a previously unfunded backlog.

December 18, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Water contaminated with arsenic, lead and zinc flows from a pipe out of the Lee Mountain mine and into a holding pond near Rimini, Mont., in 2018. It's part of the Upper Tenmile Creek Mining Area Superfund site

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  • Environment

The EPA begins rolling out billions to clean up Superfund sites

Starting with $1 billion, the EPA announced that 23 states and Puerto Rico would be getting money to clean up Superfund sites in a previously unfunded backlog.

December 18, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Farmers have been spraying chlorpyrifos on crops, including strawberries, apples, citrus, broccoli, and corn since 1965.

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  • Law

EPA Will Ban A Farming Pesticide Linked To Health Problems In Children

Agency officials issued a final ruling on Wednesday saying chlorpyrifos can no longer be used on the food that makes its way onto American dinner plates. The move overturns a Trump-era decision.

August 19, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
Refrigerators on sale in 2018 in Pennsylvania. The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to phase out the use of cooling chemicals that are powerful greenhouse gases.

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  • Science

EPA Moves To Cut A Group Of Powerful Greenhouse Gases

The EPA plans to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in refrigerators and air conditioners. When HFCs are released into the atmosphere, they are extremely good at trapping heat.

May 03, 2021
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Tia Tate is a computational biologist currently working in a postdoctoral position at a federal agency in North Carolina.

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  • Science

Why Having Diverse Government Scientists Is Key To Dealing With Climate Change

Climate and health policies rely on scientific expertise. But the federal science workforce has been shaped by decades of political interference, underfunding and race and gender bias.

April 30, 2021
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  • Rebecca Hersher
Michael Regan speaks during his confirmation hearing in February to be the Environmental Protection Agency administrator. In an NPR interview Thursday, Regan says technology that helps eliminate emissions is key to tackling climate change.

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  • Environment

EPA Chief Says Biden Infrastructure Bill Will Help The U.S. Face Climate Change

EPA Administrator Michael Regan says the nation's water infrastructure needs to be "stronger and more resilient to face the climate change impacts that we are seeing right here right now."

April 08, 2021
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  • Steve Inskeep
Protesters attempt to block the delivery of toxic PCB waste to a landfill in Warren County, N.C., in 1982. It was in response to the state's decision to locate a hazardous waste landfill in a low-income, predominantly Black area of Warren County that the term "environmental racism" was first used by the Rev. Ben Chavis.

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  • Science

Hope And Skepticism As Biden Promises To Address Environmental Racism

People of color experience more air and water pollution than white people and suffer the health impacts. It has long been an underaddressed issue in the federal government.

January 30, 2021
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  • Rebecca Hersher
A new EPA rule will make it more difficult for the regulators to use some scientific studies about the connection between pollution and health.

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  • Science

Trump EPA Erects New Barriers To Crucial Science

Studies based on private health data are crucial to understanding dangers posed by pollution. A new rule makes it harder for the EPA to consider many studies when setting safeguards.

January 05, 2021
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  • Rebecca Hersher
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