WHAT WILL HOCHUL DO: Gov. Kathy Hochul holds Adams’ fate in her hands. Hochul, who has the power to launch a complicated ...

A child would need to eat 9,000 cookies in a day to approach harmful levels of pesticide or naturally occurring heavy metals.

Mike Martucci is energized about his new job as head of the EPA regional office that includes New York and New Jersey and effusively praised his agency’s career civil servants in a Valentine’s Day ...

Reversing the rule could have disastrous implications for public health. Experts and advocates are pushing back.

EPA employees in the New England office told the Globe. Some grant-funded work, including investments in solar energy and lead removal from homes in Massachusetts, is already at a standstill ...

For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino ...

Just over a mile from where Patricia Flores has lived for almost 20 years, a battery smelter plant spewed toxic elements into the environment for nearly a century.

No one knows how many lead pipes funnel tainted water into schools and daycares, but the GOP is derailing remediation.

Congress is attempting to repeal the Biden administration’s groundbreaking rules that require all the country’s very old lead ...

The EPA is rejecting industry and labor challenges to a rule issued last year describing how the agency determines whether ...