By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups...

Transparency was a major issue on Thursday at the Senate confirmation hearing for Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama’s choice to run the Environm...

President Barack Obama officially nominated Gina McCarthy to serve as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday. McCarthy, if con...

President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Gina McCarthy as the next Environmental Protection Agency administrator, sources told Reuters this week...

(Corrects paragraph 27 to show Jackson drove her mother's sister, not her own sister, out of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina) By...

The Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored a smoking gun scientific report in March that would have explicitly linked methane migration in groundwater to hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in Texas.

On the big issues, we scored three out of four with Obama this year -- not a bad record for a movement that supposedly was being ignored or taken for granted by the president.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama defended the work of the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, saying he would stand with the agency t...

WASHINGTON — Environmental groups sued the Obama administration Tuesday for scrapping a stricter limit for smog-forming pollution, saying the de...

President Obama pledged to restore science to its rightful place -- but he didn't say just what he thought that rightful place to be.

Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution. The environment, as well as our economy, will now suffer.

In the wake of recent White House decisions, one has to wonder if that jobs pivot also includes a calculated pivot away from the environment?

A swift and massive outcry from everyday Americans like you can convince the President to change his mind and choose the health of the people over the bottom line of the nation's polluting industries.

Today the Obama administration made a decision that will endanger the health of tens of thousands of Americans.

WASHINGTON — In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama on Friday scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening sm...

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen industrial facilities could escape new federal controls on air pollution and the gases blamed for global warming ...

The cynical right wing strategy of "starving the beast" by cutting funding could pose a grave threat to this chronically underfunded agency.

The auto industry and its allies have been consistently wrong whenever they've warned that tougher standards will destroy car company's profits and kill jobs.