If confirmed, the acting administrator and former coal lobbyist will permanently replace former boss Scott Pruitt.

It will be more than a year before the agency institutes or rejects the controversial changes proposed by former EPA head Scott Pruitt.

Opponents of the guidelines, which would bar results of many public health studies from use in policy making, include scientific and healthcare organizations.

President Trump’s pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, has often opposed court involvement in environmental and health regulations.

The embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator resigns amid persistent questions about his ethics and use of taxpayer dollars.

Republicans and conservative media outlets are turning on the agency administrator as allegations of ethical misconduct and excessive spending pile up.

Buyouts offered to more than 1,200 Environmental Protection Agency employees prompted the surge in departures. 

An aide to President Donald Trump has final say over grants at the Environmental Protection Agency and has nixed close to $2 million of the agency’s awards.

Michael Dourson, a former staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency, has controversial ties to industry.