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An electric vehicle charges at an EVgo fast charging station in Detroit on Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration is proposing strict new automobile pollution limits that would require as many as two-thirds of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2032 — a nearly tenfold increase over current EV sales, according to an announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, April 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Stiff EPA emission limits to boost U.S. electric vehicle sales

By Matthew Daly and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Aug. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Biden vetoes measure seeking to rollback EPA authority on waterways

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 1, 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants, updating standards imposed more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EPA proposes limiting chemical plant pollution

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2023, in Washington. The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening rules that limit emissions of mercury and other harmful pollutants from coal-fired power plants, updating standards imposed more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana. File)

EPA tightens mercury emissions limits at coal power plants

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A lead water service line from 1927 lays on the ground on a residential street after being removed on June 17, 2021, in Denver. Some 9.2 million lead pipes carry water into homes across the U.S., with more in Florida than any other state, according to a new Environmental Protection Agency survey that will dictate how billions of dollars to find and replace those pipes are spent. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson, File)

Florida has most lead pipes in U.S., EPA survey finds

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sign outside the Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Friday, Feb. 17, 2023, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Biden suffers new bipartisan blow as Senate rolls back EPA authority

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to examine President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2024 for the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

GOP senators grill Biden EPA chief over ‘eye-watering’ budget request

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden policy and the price of gasoline by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s latest fuel proposal promises to drive gasoline prices higher

By Derrick Morgan

Michael Regan, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announces the Biden administration is launching a broad strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds associated with serious health conditions that are used in products ranging from cookware to carpets and firefighting foams during an event at N.C. State University, Oct. 18, 2021, in Raleigh, N.C. The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)

EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

By Michael Phillis and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington. Two high-ranking Trump political appointees at the EPA engaged in fraudulent payroll activities, including payments to employees after they were fired and to one of the officials when he was absent from work, that cost the agency more than $130,000, a report by an internal watchdog says. Former chief of staff Ryan Jackson and former White House liaison Charles Munoz submitted “official timesheets and personnel forms that contained materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements&quot; to mislead EPA personnel and facilitate improper payments over multiple months, according to a report by EPA’s Office of Inspector General. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Biden wants to beef up EPA staff with 2,400 new agents

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

A great egret flies above a great blue heron in a wetland inside the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Mich., on Oct. 7, 2022. The House on March 9, 2023, voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business. The vote was 227-198 to overturn the rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Biden environmental rule on wetlands suffers bipartisan setback in House

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

The Environmental Protection Agency's children's environmental health centers have engaged in "statistical shenanigans" to draw shaky links on children's health issues, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (Associated Press/File)

Settlement with Texas oil company will remove thousands of pounds of pollutants from the air

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine meets with reporters after touring the Norfolk Southern train derailment site in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 6, 2023. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced a package of reforms to improve safety Tuesday, Feb. 21 — two days after he warned the railroad responsible for the derailment, Norfolk Southern, to fulfill its promises to clean up the mess just outside East Palestine, and help the town recover. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA takes charge of cleanup in toxic Ohio train derailment

By John Seewer and Michael Rubinkam - Associated Press

Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 1, 2021. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 30, 2022, limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. By a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, the court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) **FILE**

EPA wants to know how it should spend $3 billion on climate justice

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey speaks to supporters after the Republicans' reelection victory, Nov. 8, 2022, in Montgomery, Ala. Ivey begins her second full term on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023 with her inauguration. (AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

EPA takes charge of Alabama landfill fire after state request

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Traffic moves along along 99 south in Fresno, Calif., Dec. 28, 2017. Fresno displaced Fairbanks, Alaska as the metropolitan area with the worst short-term particle pollution, a 2022 report by the American Lung Association found, while Bakersfield, Calif., continued in the most-polluted slot for year-round particle pollution for the third year in a row. (John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP)

EPA moves to toughen standards for deadly soot pollution

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Project developers plan to build carbon capture pipelines connecting dozens of Midwestern ethanol refineries, such as this one in Chancellor, S.D., shown on July 22, 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, proposed increasing the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years, a move welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)

EPA seeks to mandate more use of ethanol and other biofuels

By Steve Karnowski - Associated Press

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, North Dakota, Aug. 26, 2021. The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to reduce methane emissions, targeting the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as President Joe Biden has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump. Biden was set to announce a supplemental rule Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, cracking down on emissions of methane as he attends a global climate conference in Egypt. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Biden tightens methane emissions rule amid push for more oil

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Sharon Wilson sets up a thermal imaging camera near a compressor station in Arlington, Texas, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Wilson, a field advocate for Earthworks, which promotes alternatives to fossil fuels, uses the high-tech camera to detect methane leaks at oil and gas facilities. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Equipment that’s designed to cut methane emission is failing

By Cathy Bussewitz - Associated Press

EPA Regulatory Overreach Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

EPA letting politics, not science, define PFAS cleanup

By Mandy Gunasekara