Most recently, Fotouhi challenged the EPA’s recent ban of asbestos, which causes a deadly cancer called mesothelioma. In a brief filed in October on behalf of a group of car companies called the ...

According to a 2023 study, rates of suicide by pesticide in China declined dramatically following the ban of paraquat products. According to the EPA, paraquat is highly toxic to humans and “one ...

Chris Jahn, chief executive of the American Chemistry Council, said in a statement that the group looked forward “to working with all EPA staff in support of sound science” and policy to ...

Cash spent almost three years in the EPA post. He spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered host Lisa Mullins shortly after he resigned about what Trump's policies will mean for environmental ...

More than 40% of postdoctoral researchers leave academia, according to a study of some 45,500 researchers’ careers 1. Those who stayed and landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to ...

The U.S. EPA issued a flurry of grants to small businesses in the final days of former President Joe Biden's administration. That includes funding allocated through the Small Business Innovation ...

MADISON, Wis. -- Winter Restaurant Week is officially underway in Madison. This highly anticipated event, hosted twice a year by Madison Magazine, offers a chance for locals to experience some of ...

A new international study on public trust in science, conducted across 68 countries, has found that most people trust scientists and believe they should be more involved in society and policymaking.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection ...

Whitehouse pressed. “Senator, while carbon dioxide is not named as one of the six in the Clean Air Act, the EPA has been treating it as such,” Zeldin replied. Whitehouse affirmed that the ...

Society faces major global challenges including a need for sustainable food, materials and chemicals, solutions to combat climate change, and innovative technologies for improved healthcare.

In a 2023 EPA study identified by the White Coat Waste Project, rats were forced to inhale wildfire smoke over a period of weeks while scientists disrupted their sleep to extract information on ...