The resulting conflict is playing out in courtrooms, statehouses and regulatory agencies across the country. It’s grounded in constitutional questions of federal preemption, the commerce clause and ...

Justin Chen, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, the union representing 8,000 EPA ...

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the agency would be eliminating its Office of Research and Development and start firing hundreds of biologists, chemists, toxicologists and other scientists who help ...

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on the Office of Research and Development’s assessments of the dangers of formaldehyde, ethylene oxide and other substances.

On Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails saying they’d been assigned new ...

Workers across the EPA recently signed a letter expressing concerns about how administrator Lee Zeldin is leading the agency.

The workers are on administrative leave after signing a public letter decrying the White House's "harmful" deregulation campaign.

EPA employees who signed the letter say they knew the Trump administration was unlikely to welcome constructive criticism, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of “unlawfully undermining” the Trump ...

EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump FILE - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) building is seen in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017.

The letter represented rare public criticism from agency employees who knew they could face blowback for speaking out against a weakening of funding and federal support for climate, environmental and ...