Maxine Joselow

The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner against mercury pollution.

Senior officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to announce the move on Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.

Across the country, Democratic-led states are accelerating their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Their role just became much more important.

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday.

In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of the former president oppose mining near a wilderness area in Minnesota.

The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.

The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.

A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.

Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade.

The court ruled that construction can restart on a wind farm off the coast of New York State. The Trump administration had ordered work to stop in December.

The project, known as Vineyard Wind, was already 95 percent complete when the Trump administration ordered construction to stop.

The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.

In exchange for the land in Texas, the rocket and satellite company would give the government some of its own property nearby, documents show.

An environmental group is suing, saying federal law requires an image of public lands, not the president.

Employees suspended in the summer after signing a letter critical of the president were told they could return to work. But the reinstatement was short-lived.