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An under sink water filter operates Monday, March 9, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Do you really need a water filter? Here’s what experts say

By Kiki Sideris - Associated Press

People walk around Baltimore's Inner Harbor on March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Phillis)

Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of U.S. infrastructure problems

By Michael Phillis and M.K. Wildeman - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin to announce the EPA will no longer regulate greenhouse gases, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump, Aug. 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Environmental, health groups sue EPA over repealing endangerment finding

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin announcing that the EPA will no longer regulate greenhouse gases, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump rescinds long-standing EPA rule curbing greenhouse emissions

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - The Gen. James Gavin Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant, operates April 14, 2025, in Cheshire, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listens during the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

Trump set to gut U.S. climate change policy and environmental regulations: White House official

By Matthew Daly and Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listens during the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

EPA plan would begin rolling back ‘good neighbor’ rule on downwind pollution from smokestacks

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

An HSUS Animal Rescue Team member carries a beagle into the organization's care and rehabilitation center in Maryland on Thursday, July 21, 2022, after the organization removed the first 201 beagles as part of a transfer plan from Envigo RMS LLC facility in Cumberland, Va. The Humane Society of the United States says it has removed the last group of beagles from a troubled breeding facility in Virginia that had planned to sell the dogs to animal testing labs. The organization said it took away the remaining 312 dogs at the facility in Cumberland on Thursday, Sept. 1. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for the HSUS) **FILE**

EPA to end mammal testing by 2035, reviving Trump-era goal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the sun sets, near Emmett, Kansas, Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

EPA says it will stop calculating health care savings from key air pollution rules

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Yvette Lyles points to the spot on her wall reached by floodwaters in Cahokia Heights, Ill., May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Phillis)

Poor communities threatened by aging sewers see crucial aid slashed under Trump

By Tammy Webber, Michael Phillis and M.K. Wildeman - Associated Press

This photo provided by Honda shows the 2026 Civic sedan, an affordable and highly rated compact car. (Courtesy of American Honda Motor Co. via AP)

The top 5 affordable cars and SUVs for 2026, according to Edmunds

By Christian Wardlaw - Associated Press

FILE - A sign is posted outside a water well indicates perchlorate contamination at a site in Rialto, Calif., March 28, 2005. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

EPA says it will propose drinking water limit for perchlorate, but only because court ordered it

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

FILE - The Kyger Creek Power Plant, a coal-fired power plant, operates April 14, 2025, near Cheshire, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

‘Trump’s EPA’ in 2025: A fossil fuel-friendly approach to deregulation

By Michael Phillis, Alexa St. John and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule and China and United States' manufacturing illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Don’t let China undercut American manufacturing

By Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The United States of America's Latin America foreign policy illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump’s ‘America First’ Panama strategy blends security, energy and economic growth

By Andrew Wheeler

The sign for the Environmental Protection Agency is shown in Washington on Sept. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Biden’s EPA paid $10.9 million in lawyers’ fees in sue-and-settle cases

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Eggs are displayed in refrigerators at a grocery store in Glenview, Ill., Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Trump administration moves to loosen restrictions it once supported on a harmful pollutant

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., presides over a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr.) ** FILE **

DOGE subcommittee to hold hearing on weather modification, ‘geo-engineering’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Climate Crisis Hoax Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Defund the National Academy of Sciences and save Trump’s energy agenda

By Steve Milloy