A new report from EPA’s Office of Inspector General says the federal agency needs to get serious about reducing nutrients that wash off farm fields and lawns.

For too long, the federal agency has been relying on the states to adopt…

In a move that’s sure to please clean water advocates, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking comments on how perchlorate affects children’s health.

Perchlorate is a chemical often found in the manufacturing of fireworks, flares and solid rocket propellant. Studies show that…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $55 million in federal funding aimed at cleaning up contaminated sites known as brownfields.

About $42 million of that amount are federal stimulus funds while the rest came from funding that typically supports the agency’s…

A new study out of the University of California shows that ozone exposure, even at levels deemed safe by current clean air standards, can have a significant and negative effect on lung function.

The researchers found that healthy, non-smoking adults can…

EPA officials announced Wednesday they were rethinking part of an earlier rule aimed at reducing airborne lead.

Specifically, the agency is reconsidering whether to include additional monitoring requirements near industrial sources of lead that emit less than one ton per year.

It’s a move…

Photo of Lisa P. Jackson. Courtesy of US EPA

You wouldn’t know it if you were watching most news networks right now, but there is news outside Neverland.

Several high-ranking administration officials are testifying before a key Senate committee today on the…

Hexavalent chromium found in sludge dumped on several northwest Missouri farms does not pose a human health risk, state and federal environmental regulators said Wednesday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Missouri Departments of Health and Natural Resources…

As I wrote in today’s Post-Dispatch, for the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is focusing on air quality near schools. The agency started the effort weeks ago and came out with a list yesterday of 62 schools in 22 states where outdoor…

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today announced a new initiative aimed at identifying schools plagued by toxic air pollution.

The federal agency is now identifying which schools might benefit from increased monitoring. The initiative represents the first time the agency has systematically looked at…