MORE: EPA takes aim at water, air and toxics protections as part of massive deregulation campaign. The restructuring moves come on the same day the Trump administration released its 2026 fiscal ...

Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1963, but it was the creation of the EPA, combined with amendments to the law in 1970 and 1977, that added regulatory weight to the law’s mandate of reducing ...

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on February 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The vast majority of Americans know climate change is here.

Trump sure likes our clean air and water. ... (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) By William K. Reilly. William K. Reilly was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1989 to 1993.

A proposed change to California’s Constitution seeks to make clean air and water a right, along with a healthy environment. Here, wildfire smoke obscures the skyline of downtown Los Angeles in ...

The air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat are so important to our well-being.Pennsylvania was rated the sixth smoggiest state in the U.S., and the Lehigh Valley region the nation ...