Laws & Regulations

"Washington state will impose a fire-resistant building code in high-risk areas. Wildfire-prone areas are being excluded, some say."

"For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing."

"Indigenous Xinca villagers burn plastic to dispose of it and stoke cooking fires, unwittingly exposing themselves, their children and environment to deadly pollutants. An ambitious project aims to change that."

"A lawsuit against the University of Michigan demanding the emails of a professor who has worked on “climate superfund” laws has been dismissed by a state judge." "A conservative group had tried to force the University of Michigan to hand over messages from a law professor who worked on “climate superfund” bills."

"A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines."

"Environmental and community groups sued the Trump administration on Friday over its approval of two chemicals for use in semiconductors despite posing health risks."

"For years, NextEra Energy boasted it was a “leading clean energy company.” Now, as renewable energy faces political opposition, it’s stopped emphasizing that."

"State regulators face calls to better protect low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities."

"Front group lauds purported benefits of data centers without disclosing its backer."

"About a month after President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, at least nine mining claims have been staked on land that is no longer protected from development, public records show."