As the E.P.A. Withers, Will Its Museum Follow? Tucked away near the White House is a tribute to the environmental agency and its history — for the time being, anyway.

Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

Trump Says E.P.A. Layoffs Will Cut Staff by 65 Percent The president said Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, was planning mass layoffs. Agency officials said the cuts would make it impossible to carry out their mission.

Trump Administration Unfreezes Funding for Some EPA Programs The funding, approved by Congress and overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency, had been blocked since January, when President Trump ordered a pause and review of climate and clean energy programs.

What’s with the EPA seizing ‘gold bars’? The Trump administration is attempting to take back around $20 billion of funding that the Biden administration previously awarded to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Trump’s appointee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, posted a cryptic video last night and followed up with a press release today clai…

Trump Stocks E.P.A. With Oil, Gas and Chemical Lobbyists Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s Pick to Head E.P.A., Faces Senate Confirmation Hearing Mr. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist with little experience in environmental policy, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself.

In a First, the E.P.A. Warns of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Fertilizer Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said.

EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”

E.P.A. Proposes Limits on Nitrogen Oxides Nitrogen oxides, a group of gases from the burning of fossil fuels, is linked to a range of health effects.

Trump’s Pick To Lead The EPA is An Anti-Environmental Bozo Since former President Donald Trump won reelection on November 5, he has been busy assigning his friends and sycophants to different roles within the federal government. That includes former congressman Lee Zeldin, a Trump ally, who will now lead in the internal dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency. Read more…

Trump Chooses Lee Zeldin to Run E.P.A. The former congressman from New York is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and voted against certifying the 2020 election.

Marathon Oil Agrees to Pay Record EPA Penalty The company will spend $242 million to resolve allegations that it released methane, a greenhouse gas, and other pollutants in North Dakota.