President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes hiking the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget to $11.88 billion, and priorities for the funds include upgrading water infrastructure and tackling the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS.
Monsanto on Thursday asked a St. Louis judge to delay the start of a trial over claims brought by three men alleging exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides, such as the popular Roundup brand, caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
In a move long sought by environmentalists, the Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing regulatory revisions to mandate that public companies disclose some of the financial risks that they face due to the climate crisis, including their own greenhouse gas emissions.
Congress is advancing an omnibus spending package for fiscal year 2022 that includes a modest budget increase of 3.4 percent for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which falls short of the larger increase President Joe Biden requested.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on February 28 in a case debating the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Air Act power to regulate greenhouse gases, a case in which the ruling is likely to have significant implications for the Biden administration’s plan to fight the climate crisis.