Although Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has vowed to speed cleanup at the nation’s more than 1,300 Superfund sites, documents indicate the agency may slow down an estimated $1-billion cleanup at the Portland, Ore., harbor.
A federal judge has endorsed a consent decree to rehabilitate Baltimore's
century-old sewer system, clearing the way for a $1.6-billion strategy to stop
millions of gallons of wastewater from leaking into the city's Inner Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay within the next 13 years.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, meant to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 32% from 2005 levels by 2030.