environmental protection agency

The Environmental Protection Agency recently laid off nearly 400 employees. Environmental workers and union leaders say fewer EPA staff and attorneys mean less support in holding polluters accountable and responding to environmental emergencies.

Michigan gets a $129 million US EPA grant to assist local governments and tribes in siting, zoning, and permitting utility-scale renewable energy projects.

The EPA says cleanup of a six-acre segment of the Allied Paper/Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund site is complete.

Unpacking recent cold snaps and ice cover, Bonnie Jo Campbell's new book The Waters, and the growing problem of the toxic "Gelman Plume" under Ann Arbor.

The EPA plan announced Tuesday would limit toxic PFAS chemicals to the lowest level that tests can detect.

Debra Shore is the EPA's administrator for Region Five, which covers Michigan. She toured part of Flint’s water plant Tuesday.

The intense rainstorms and flooding that wreaked havoc on southeast Michigan last month are a sign of things to come with climate change—and President Joe…

The new administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency was in Flint Wednesday, in part to address the agency’s battered image in the…

Three environmental groups have notified the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency they plan to sue because the agency has not come up with a plan to…

A federal law blamed in part for slowing the response to the Flint water crisis is getting a major revision.Andrew Wheeler is the Environmental Protection…