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The Daily Signal reports on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) news with analysis and commentary on regulations, lawsuits, and policy challenges.
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New Federal Plan Aims to Replace Synthetic Fabrics With American Cotton
The United States Department of Agriculture has launched the Great American Cotton Plan to support cotton farmers and protect Americans from “forever chemicals” in our daily lives. Over the past decade, America has moved to almost all synthetic fibers, often for clothing and linens made of plastics such as polyester, nylon, polypropylene, and polyethylene. While… -
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Zeldin Vows to Prevent Another 9/11 Air Poisoning Disaster After LA Fires
The Environmental Protection Agency misled the public about the dangerous air in New York City following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, Commissioner Lee Zeldin said. He vowed to prevent a repeat of this disaster in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires. “I actually think that’s the worst moment of EPA history was misleading… -
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‘FAKE NEWS’: EPA Sets the Record Straight as Former Staff Say Changes Put ‘People at Risk’
The Environmental Protection Agency is pushing back after former officials claimed that retiring a controversial risk analysis program will put Americans at risk for toxic exposure. The Integrated Risk Information System, which the EPA created without a mandate from Congress in 1985, has reportedly exaggerated the risk of certain chemicals, leading to negative real-world consequences…. -
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DEEP STATE: Is This EPA Lawyer Undermining Trump’s Agenda From Within?
An Environmental Protection Agency lawyer and union leader has signed a dissent letter opposing President Donald Trump’s policy at the agency and has posted on social media attacking EPA Director Lee Zeldin, but appears to still be employed there. This activity raises questions as to whether she might be a “deep state” actor, working to… -
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‘I Did My Homework’: Zeldin Slams DeLauro During Explosive EPA Hearing
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin brought a fiery exchange against a progressive climate control hawk who forgot to do her homework, suggesting his defense was “BS.” Zeldin appeared before the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee on Monday to testify and defend the EPA’s 2027 budget. He soon got into a heated argument with… -
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EPA Touts 100-Item List of Accomplishments in Trump’s First 100 Days
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday released a 100-item “brag list” marking the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. “These are just a fraction of the environmental actions we have taken in the first 100 days. Our team at EPA is honored and motivated to fight for you and deliver results,” reads the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Probes EPA Waste, Financial Conflicts
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Financial conflicts of interest and billions of questionable expenditures under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency are facing fresh scrutiny by House investigators. In a letter Thursday, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for a briefing, while also commending… -
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Lee Zeldin Hits the Ground Running at EPA
Two years after a train derailment exposed residents of East Palestine, Ohio, to hazardous chemicals, the new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is making the village his first official visit Monday. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman from Long Island, won his Senate confirmation vote Wednesday afternoon, spent Thursday and Friday meeting with… -
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‘Who Signed Off on That?’ Lee Zeldin Responds to Gun-Toting EPA Bureaucrats
At his confirmation hearing Thursday, EPA administrator-designate Lee Zeldin suggested he would rein in a weaponized—literally weaponized—bureaucracy at the EPA. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing for Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the Environmental Protection Agency administrator. During the hearing, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, relayed instances during the administrations… -
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New EPA Rule Is a Death Sentence for American Energy
The Environmental Protection Agency plays judge, jury, and executioner—and its newest-issued rule is a death sentence to American energy and energy-producing states. Meanwhile, states like Pennsylvania, which will be disproportionately harmed by the rule because of our abundant natural gas production, hold the key to America’s increasing energy needs, generating immense economic development and reducing… -
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On Earth Day, EPA Pushes Truck Rule That Will Hurt Workers and Businesses, Not Help Planet
On this Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency is celebrating its new emissions standard for heavy-duty trucks as a triumph for the environment. The irony is, this policy will do nothing for our planet, but it will inflict severe economic damage on hardworking Americans. The EPA’s latest rule, while not explicitly mandating production of electric-powered… -
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Researchers Fault EPA for Resisting Efforts to Verify Accuracy of Computer Models on Methane
The Environmental Protection Agency should withdraw and reissue a proposed rule regulating methane emissions because it hasn’t provided enough information to verify the computer modeling behind it, Heritage Foundation researchers say. By violating the modeling requirements in the Clean Air Act, the federal law designed to reduce air pollution, EPA is operating under a double… -
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US Auto Industry Faces Grim Future as Biden’s EPA Sets EV Mandates
Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final emissions standards rule, requiring that 70% of new vehicle sales be pure battery-powered electric or hybrids by 2032. Prohibition was a disaster and ended 13 years after… -
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Supreme Court’s ‘Waters of US’ Ruling a Milestone in Curbing EPA’s Unlawful Overreach
At long last, the nightmare of building a dream house is over for Michael and Chantell Sackett. The Supreme Court’s unanimous Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency decision handed down on May 25 marks another important milestone in the court’s continuing effort to correct and rein in the abusive, unlawful overreach of the administrative state. The decision reaffirms… -
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Supreme Court Ruling Makes Waves for Biden’s EPA
In a landmark, unanimous decision last week, the Supreme Court pushed back against the Biden administration’s regulatory overreach by returning the Clean Water Act to its original purpose and restoring federalism. In 2004, Chantell and Mike Sackett had just begun backfilling on their land in Priest Lake, Idaho, when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the… -
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Heritage Foundation Appeals to Force EPA Disclosures in East Palestine Train Derailment
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project has appealed a court ruling siding with the Environmental Protection Agency in its refusal to disclose information about the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The Feb. 3 train derailment gained significant national media coverage for the Ohio town of 4,700, as well as a visit from former President… -
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DOJ, EPA Sue Norfolk Southern Railroad Over East Palestine Train Derailment
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Norfolk Southern Corp., owner of the 50-car train that derailed almost two months ago in East Palestine, Ohio. The complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, filed on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, seeks penalties for what it says was the unlawful…