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What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

13 February 2026 at 21:03
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

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E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify β€œtrillions of dollars” in regulations on polluting industries and its reversal will help the economy.

Behind the E.P.A.’s Rush to Repeal the Endangerment Finding

10 February 2026 at 15:17
The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.

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Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington last year.

Judge Hands Trump a Fifth Loss in His Effort to Halt Offshore Wind Projects

2 February 2026 at 16:19
The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of New York State. The Trump administration had ordered work to stop in December.

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A staging area for Orsted’s Sunrise Wind project at the Port of Coeymans south of Albany, N.Y., in 2024.

What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.

21 January 2026 at 05:03
The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

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Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government agencies have used a theoretical value of human life when calculating the costs and benefits of new regulations.

E.P.A. Moves to Limit States’ Ability to Block Pipelines

13 January 2026 at 14:08
The agency wants to curtail a section of the Clean Water Act that Democratic governors have used to restrict fossil fuel development.

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A gas pipeline under construction near Amarillo, Texas, in November.

Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Stop Rhode Island’s Revolution Wind Project

12 January 2026 at 21:31
The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now.

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Components of the Revolution Wind farm project on a pier in New London, Conn., in September.
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