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President Joe Biden speaks about the PACT Act, which helps veterans get screened for exposure to toxins, at the Major Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center in New Castle, Del., Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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US buying 3M barrels of oil to start replenishing reserves
By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press
Fri,12/16/22-4:34PM , 141 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it is buying 3 million barrels of oil to begin to replenish U.S. strategic reserves that officials drained earlier this year in a bid to stop gasoline prices from rising amid production cuts by OPEC and a ban on Russian oil imports.
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Nov. 16, 2021. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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EPA awards grants to monitor air quality in 37 states
By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press
Thu,11/03/22-11:19AM , 171 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution.
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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at an event highlighting the Biden-Harris Administration's investments in electric school buses at Lumen Field in Seattle on Wednesday, oct. 26, 2022. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP)

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More kids to ride in 'clean' school buses, mostly electric
By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press
Wed,10/26/22-4:17AM , 234 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 400 school districts spanning all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along with several tribes and U.S. territories, are receiving roughly $1 billion in grants to purchase about 2,500 “clean” school buses under a new federal program.
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Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., April 14, 2022. The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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EPA to designate 'forever chemicals' as hazardous substances
By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press
Fri,08/26/22-8:01AM , 122 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linke
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