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… Protection Agency, the conservative court ruled against delegated authority, nullifying the EPA's ability to regulate gas emissions and help curb climate change. Ironically, these …

… for Catholics, and others, in Tucson to know that the U.S. bishops' conference supported the EPA proposal to put stricter limits on carbon pollution from power plants. For places with …

… additional 25,303 comments from individual pro-life Christians were submitted calling on the EPA to strengthen safeguards on pollution from light- and medium-duty passenger vehicles, and a further 21,676 comments to the EPA support stronger standards on heavy-duty vehicle emissions. Further recent policy wins with …

… that significantly reduced which watersheds are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. EPA officials said the move was a result of a decision in May by the U.S. Supreme Court, which … and as much as 63% of wetland acreage, according to a report by The Washington Post citing an EPA official. The river was selected as the symbol of this year's Season of Creation , an …

… Where was he when migrant children were abducted with no plans for reunification, when the EPA was gutted, when the Muslim travel ban was instituted, when Nazis marched in Charlottesville, …

… rabbis and religious from 44 states and Puerto Rico wrote in a letter delivered Aug. 8 to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We have a moral obligation to protect our climate," they said, with 200-plus Catholic women religious among the signatories. In May, EPA proposed standards for carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act for new and existing power … from the combustion of fossil fuels. The proposed standards seek to curb that output, with the EPA estimating through 2042 they will cumulatively slash up to 617 million metric tons of carbon …

… comments on postcards to be sent to the United States Environmental Protections Agency, or EPA, in support of the proposed changes. Panel host IHM Sr. Barbara Stanbridge said, "We want to encourage the EPA to truly be an environmental protection agency … not [one] protecting the fossil fuel … power sector was the next largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States in 2021. The EPA's proposed limits target these emissions, which according to the EPA are "almost entirely" …

… equaling about 167,000 pounds of coal that would have been burned each year, according to the EPA's greenhouse emission calculator. (The calculator uses national averages.) With the …

… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …

… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …

… PFAS are linked to cancer, suppressed immune responses and other health concerns. The new EPA rule requires public water system monitoring to strictly limit six PFAS chemicals, instead of the previously unenforceable guidance of just two. The EPA's action signals heightened concerns about drinking water quality and safety. A Feb. 16 TIME …

… annually. Attendees at "Detroit's Dirty Air" were invited to submit public comments to the EPA and urge it to save lives by setting soot pollution standards to the amount "recommended by the EPA's own scientific advisory." Jesuit Fr. Lorn Snow, Gesu pastor and event panelist, said, "I …