Top Biden environmental official to step down on Dec 31
WASHINGTON - The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency plans to step down on Dec 31 after overseeing widespread efforts by the administration of President Joe Biden to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.
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Biden Moves to Protect Climate Progress From Trump, But Advocates Want More
Even before Election Day, environmental groups were suggesting ways that the Biden administration could protect the president’s climate agenda from an incoming president who has vowed to increase fossil fuel production and repeal major climate initiatives.
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EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31
Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) President Joe Biden speaks with Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan, left, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File ...
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Regan to leave EPA at end of year
Michael Regan, the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Joe Biden, has announced that he will be leaving the agency on December 31, about three weeks before Biden leaves office.
All 13 of Biden’s presidential vetoes
President Joe Biden waited two years into his term in office to issue his first presidential veto, but he's primed to conclude his term with 13.
Sen. Joni Ernst demands EPA halt its spending spree on Biden’s way out of the White House
Top DOGE” Sen. Joni Ernst is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to cease awarding new grants until the next administration sets up new leadership.
Outgoing Biden Interior Department announces flurry of new wilderness protections
The Biden administration proposed two rounds of new environmental protections for sites in the Western U.S. on Monday, beginning a process that would extend into the forthcoming Trump
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Biden signs law to clean up abandoned mines across the western U.S.
Law establishes pilot program in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to permit the decontamination of 15 low-risk, abandoned mines established before 1980
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Lame Duck Biden Admin Faces Mounting Pressure To Shower Anti-Israel, Anti-Cop Nonprofit With Taxpayer Cash
The left-wing advocates lobbying President Joe Biden include members of his own administration ... in Palestine,” wrote an open letter to the White House, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) published on Medium on ...
Biden signs bill that could clean up old Nevada mines
President Joe Biden signed the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act into law on Wednesday to clean up the Silver State’s 200,000 abandoned mines that pollute waterways and have killed explorers.
EPA approves California plan to ban sale of gas-only cars in 2035
The state says the rule is crucial to meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and cutting smog-forming pollutants.
Biden declares bald eagles US national bird. The raptors are still 'imperiled' in SC.
Bald eagles were nearly eliminated from much of their native range by the 1960s, but have rebounded. Now, they've been declared America's national bird.