A Trump administration official lashed out Monday after leaked emails revealed the EPA plans to abandon its decades-old practice of assigning a dollar value to lives saved by pollution regulations — while continuing to calculate costs to industry.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt moved Monday to end a controversial practice known as “sue and settle,” which critics said was used during the Obama administration to cut deals with environmental groups leading to new regulations. “The days of ...

There was an uproar among journalists earlier this week after leaked internal memos seemed to suggest the Trump administration had banned the Environmental Protection Agency from communicating with the public or awarding grants to states. The way reporters ...

Daren Bakst is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. When environmental pressure groups can promote their agendas through closed-door rule-making with the Environmental Protection Agency, something ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2017 - For years, industry groups have complained that the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies give in too easily when sued by environmental groups. Too often, these critics say, the executive branch is quick to ...

During a Thursday hearing, Sen. Barbara Boxer suggested that former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson was following precedent by setting up an email alias to conduct official government business. But the researcher who uncovered Jackson's 'Richard Windsor ...