"After more than a decade of pressure from environmental health advocates, the Food and Drug Administration is set to reconsider the health effects of a common and controversial industrial chemical often used in plastics."
"A series of overdue regulatory updates to a key part of the nation’s fuel distribution network would slash overall emissions of benzene and other pollutants from those sources by more than one-third, according to a newly released EPA proposal."
"The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to require publicly listed companies to disclose their climate-related risks has unleashed pushback from critics who say the agency is overstepping its bounds."
"The twin threats of inflation and high gasoline prices continued to drag on the Biden administration this week, and analysts were beginning to predict that it will take strong economic medicine to deal with the malaise."
"The state asked for federal help to find oil-field emissions; the EPA found dozens of emissions and Clean Air Act violations—but in three years it has issued only two fines."
"The nation’s power grid is under stress like never before, with regulators warning that the kind of rolling outages that are now familiar to California and Texas could be far more widespread as hot summer weather arrives."
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday it would seek to return authority to states to oppose gas pipelines, coal terminals and other projects that pose a threat to lakes, rivers and streams — reversing a major Trump administration rule."
"U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to revise the critical habitat designation for Florida manatees, which have been dying in record numbers because water pollution is killing a main food source."
"Recovery plans designed to prevent the extinction of almost 180 threatened species and habitats, including the Tasmanian devil, were scrapped by the Coalition in one of Sussan Ley’s final acts as environment minister."
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