The Trump administration's gutting of diversity programs highlights a seeming paradox of vows to deliver clean air, land and ...

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin got into a shouting match over agency grant cancellations during a Senate hearing ...

Lee Zeldin is far outpacing his recent Trump ... Zeldin is redefining environmental justice efforts as “forced discrimination programs” in order to nix it as part of Trump’s executive ...

The grants were dedicated for projects meant to improve minority communities impacted by pollution, climate change and air ...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency clashed angrily with Democratic senators Wednesday, accusing one of being an “aspiring fiction writer” and saying another does not “care about wasting m ...

The heated exchange ended soon after when Whitehouse’s time to speak expired, but it underscored the bitterness over the Trump administration’s efforts to take back billions of dollars in grants ...

Central Washington congressman Dan Newhouse has written the head of the Environmental Protection Agency seeking an ...

Seen from a rumbling elevated train, the capital’s Brentwood district resembles a patchwork quilt of vast, dusty lots, each ...

Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Zeldin, Democrats spar over Trump agenda at Senate hearing EPA ...

Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse locked horns with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Under the Trump administration, the EPA has canceled or interrupted hundreds of grants aimed at improving health and severe ...