Maxine Joselow

Organizers want the July 4 fireworks in the nation’s capital to break the world record. But the fun will also come with air pollution and possibly headaches for pet owners and zoo keepers.

Aaron Szabo will step down as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s air office this month, he told employees, after overseeing rollbacks of a range of pollution limits.

By and The top air pollution regulator at the Environmental Protection Agency told employees on Tuesday that he is leaving the Trump

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed to loosen limits on smog-causing pollution from a variety of heavy-duty vehicles, including tractor-trailers, fire engines and delivery trucks.

The move could open up habitats to drilling and mining, and hasten the demise of many imperiled animals, experts say.

By and The Trump administration on Friday moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining, real estate

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has appointed a critic of mainstream climate science to oversee the federal government's flagship report on how climate change affects the United States.

Environmentalists characterized the change as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. The fossil fuel and mining industries applauded it.

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This article originally appeared in The New York Times WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has appointed a critic of mainstream climate