“There was no warning, no conversation,” said Jane Clougherty, an environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year. Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times ...

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For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...

Runoff from industrial sites and facilities can carry contaminants that threaten both the environment and workplace safety. Here’s how smart filtration strategies help control pollution and protect ...

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Steam and pollution emerge from a coal-fired power plant in Wyoming. The Environmental Protection Agency under President Trump is taking a new approach to regulating air pollution. In a reversal from ...