Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chair of the Environment Subcommittee, told POLITICO’s E&E News he is in the early stages of ...

Trump’s Project 2025-stoked sabotage of the Environmental Protection Agency will unleash rampant carcinogens in the US.

PFAS could be the rare environmental issue that gets addressed this term.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin story. Congress did not create it by enacting a statute; President Richard Nixon created it by presidential edict.

The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he ...

Since President Richard Nixon created the EPA in 1970, the U.S. population has grown by 62% and its gross domestic product has more than quadrupled. People in the U.S. drive almost three times as ...

Richard Nixon was born in 1913 in California ... In 1970, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency to help preserve the planet. He was a global pioneer in recognising the damage humans ...

The United States used to be dangerously polluted. Before President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the environment and its well-being was not a federal priority.