White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, during her first press briefing, faced a barrage of questions on the administration's freeze on federal aid programs.

The first day of any presidential administration is filled with both ceremony and bureaucracy. The first day of the second Trump Administration was ...

By Max Bearak and Malin Fezehai Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate ... to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate ...

Citing the LA fires, Trump directed federal agencies to “immediately take actions to override” water operations and ...

From the bill, the term "rat contraceptive" means an agent for the reduction of reproductive capacity in rats that is approved for such use by the United States Environment Protection Agency.

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

Several Democrats voted in favor of Zeldin, a former lawmaker from New York who will oversee an agency tasked with protecting ...

President Donald Trump sacked at least a dozen internal government watchdogs late Friday, US media reported, the latest shake-up of the Republican's second term after less than a week back in office.

President Donald Trump sacked at least a dozen internal government watchdogs late on Friday, US media reported, the latest ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s EPA pick, Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman, pledged to protect both the environment and the economy while strictly interpreting the nation’s clean air and water ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 56 senior officials in the top U.S. aid and development agency were placed on leave Monday amid an investigation into an alleged effort to thwart President Donald ...