Environmental Protection Agency

When the Environmental Protection Agency declared the Lower Neponset River a Superfund site in 2022, community members celebrated it as a recognition of the community’s need and a way to bring faster repair to a natural resource.

While President Biden’s lone term in office will run through January 19, the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael S. Regan, who left his post at the end of December, in many ways marks the end of a too-short — and ultimately failed — experiment in seeking environmental justice through regulation.

New regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency will take steps to reduce stormwater runoff, a major source of pollution in the rivers and watersheds in the Boston area.

As Boston Public Schools looks to electrify its fleet of school buses it’s setting its sights on a new horizon: transforming existing diesel-powered and other internal combustion engine buses into electric ones.