During the early 1970s, the air in many American cities was … brown. Pollution muddied clear skies and sickened people across the country. The Clean Air Act helped change that. But the law's future is ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Feb. 27 -- The Supreme Court today upheld the waythe federal government sets clean-air standards, rejecting industryarguments that officials must balance compliance costs against ...

Trump wants to roll back environmental protections at least to where they stood prior to the 1970 Clean Air Act. (Courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation) In March, Environmental Protection ...

When Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, climate change wasn’t on anyone’s mind. Yet under an Obama-era decision known as the “Endangerment Finding,” the Environmental Protection Agency has ...

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 ...

A federal judge ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to cooperate with environmental groups and make new ...

Despite stalled climate, clean energy bills, Congress has acted in the past. July 2, 2010— -- Despite the gushing nudge provided by the Gulf oil spill, the Waxman-Markey climate bill passed last ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set up a portal allowing polluters to request exemptions to nine Clean Air Act rules. The Clean Air Act allows the president to exempt polluters from ...

Tracy J. Wholf is a senior coordinating producer of climate and environmental coverage for CBS News and Stations, based in New York. In its latest move to dismantle environmental regulation under the ...

The Sierra Club and other organizations filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (“Court”) a September 2nd Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief ...