Lobbyists, Activists Helped Plan Pruitt's Foreign Trips
Lobbyist Richard Smotkin worked closely with EPA officials to organize Pruitt's December trip to Morocco.
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Lobbyist Richard Smotkin worked closely with EPA officials to organize Pruitt's December trip to Morocco.
Scott Pruitt spent much of his testimony on Thursday before the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee defending himself against a string of ethics controversies that have prompted calls for his ouster.
Members of the Environmental Protection Agency are testing for pollution in the water.
President Donald Trump has gotten nowhere in his push to kill federal support for cleaning up some of the nation's most prized waterways.
The remaining clean-up will continue through Thursday. The work includes removing the boom, residual oil, as well as decontaminating boats and equipment.
Investigators eventually determined the source: a Speedway gas station in Westmont. They believe fuel leaked from the station into the sewer system that stretches about eight miles.
Indiana elected officials, environmentalists and representatives of EPA workers are raising alarms about the proposed cuts to the agency.
Protestors demonstrated as Administrator Scott Pruitt met with local and state officials about the continuing cleanup of toxic soil.
Chicago Aldermen are vowing to fight President Trump's moves to undo federal environmental regulations from the past two decades.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday plans to remove lead and arsenic from the East Chicago USS Lead Superfund site.
The Trump Administration unveiled Thursday its initial budget proposal.
A few dozen Chicago-based employees of the Environmental Protection Agency demonstrated Thursday afternoon at Federal Plaza, upset over proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration.
Officials believe the lead in the Chicago Park District fountains and sinks could be caused by older, lead-based pipes.
Hundreds of residents of the West Calumet site learned the dirt their children have been playing in has lead levels 10 times higher than the federal safety standard.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports from Naperville, where motorists were queued up to show their cars are environmentally sound.
Residents of the Pilsen neighborhood whose homes are built on the former site of lead plants turned out Wednesday night for a community meeting on a possible Superfund cleanup.
Susan Hedman, head of the EPA regional office in Chicago whose jurisdiction includes Michigan, was stepping down Feb. 1 so the agency could focus "solely on the restoration of Flint's drinking water."
Air purifiers and HEPA filters combat indoor air pollution, but for a greener option, use houseplants.
For many, Earth Day is simply a day that comes and goes, but the meaning behind the day means much more just planting a few trees.
The Supreme Court's conservative justices cast doubt Wednesday on the Obama administration's first-ever regulations aimed at reducing power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.
House Republicans targeted a key element of President Obama's strategy for fighting climate change, releasing a bill to delay the Obama administration's plan to limit carbon pollution.
Democrats on a congressional oversight panel are stepping up their investigation into how well states are regulating the disposal of oil and gas waste, citing continuing public concern about the potential environmental and health risks of hydraulic fracturing.
With the recent dip in oil prices, the Environmental Protection Agency wants the State Department to "revisit" how much of a toll the Keystone XL oil pipeline would have on global warming.
The bus stopped at 63rd and Dorchester at the Apostolic Church of God for the Chicago stop of the "I Will Act on Climate" national bus tour drumming up support for the Obama administration's climate change agenda.
The Obama Administration is holding a second and final public hearing today in Chicago on its controversial plan to sharply cut air pollution from cars, starting in 2017.
