Many fire victims are eager to clear their home sites and move on to rebuilding. The big question is when.

The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.

The former New York congressman has little experience in environmental policy. He is expected to follow orders to weaken climate rules.

Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

President Trump’s wave of executive orders yesterday sent an undeniable signal to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate change.

Agencies and unions have put in place new guardrails designed to limit political interference in government research.

Hino Motors, a Toyota subsidiary, will plead guilty to conspiracy charges and pay penalties for deceiving regulators about its diesel engines, the E.P.A. said.

Mr. Zeldin, a Trump loyalist, would be charged with dismantling climate rules and perhaps the agency itself. He faced questions from the Senate Thursday.

State regulators said the measures would probably have been rejected by the Trump administration and that they would focus on homegrown legal strategies instead.

How to understand the E.P.A.’s new warning about PFAS levels in sewage sludge.

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said.

Wastewater, even after treatment to make it drinkable, contains high levels of PFAS, according to researchers.

Communities must be able to move to solid ground while remaining whole.

Forty-four years ago, Ronald Reagan took aim at Jimmy Carter’s environmental legacy. President Biden’s climate initiatives could face a similar fate.

The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that sewage sludge, the raw material for the fertilizer, carried toxic “forever chemicals.”

A company controlled by Goldman Sachs is helping to lead a lobbying effort by makers of fertilizer linked to “forever chemicals.”

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After a court overturned a ban, the agency has proposed restricting chlorpyrifos to 11 food crops, illustrating the limits of federal regulation.

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Presidents have extraordinary control over climate policy, in part, because it’s been decades since Congress has passed a comprehensive environmental bill.

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A company controlled by Goldman Sachs is helping to lead a lobbying effort by makers of fertilizer linked to “forever chemicals.”

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