This week the U.S. House of Representatives is considering three bills that would dramatically weaken the Clean Air Act: the FENCES Act, RED Tape Act and FIRE Act. The FIRE and FENCES Acts are parts ...

The House approved legislation Thursday to ease air pollution and permitting requirements, part of the Republicans’ quest to ...

The sky turns a rusty orange. The sun dims behind a thick veil of smoke. For millions of Americans, even ones far from wildfire-prone lands, this eerie scene is no longer rare. Extreme wildfires have ...

AG William Tong joined a coalition of 12 attorneys general and local governments suing the EPA over its failure to enforce the 2024 Clean Air Act’s soot standards.

More than 152 million people in the U.S. live in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution, a Association ...

Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the third of three bills that would weaken Clean Air Act: HR 6387, the “Fire Improvement and Reforming Exceptional Events Act,” HR 6409, the ...

For two decades, the federal government has classified the heated chambers used to break down plastic waste as incinerators, ...

Federal actions like the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act helped regulate water and air pollution.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach area retained its dubious distinction as the nation’s smoggiest region, with ozone pollution getting worse over the past year, according to an annual report by the American ...

The lawyers who successfully won the law’s climate authority once thought of it as a placeholder for stronger legislation. Three presidents have used the Clean Air Act to curb planet-warming pollution ...