Sean Reilly

The draft version - developed during the Biden administration - was published just after President Donald Trump took office last year: #page=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR…. You can expect the final rule to look a lot different. #AirPollution #ethyleneoxide #deregulation

Standing by for public release of this important #EPA rule, which cleared review by the White House regs office yesterday: #AirPollution

To see who from Zeldin's political world joined EPA, I sifted through records I got under #FOIA I found several aides with those ties at the agency — like a hedge fund CEO and a Trump donor, per his resume He also gave to Zeldin's campaigns #FOIA4eva

Prominent NASA climate scientist quits, citing cuts and eviction ift.tt/J3CPGDV

@HMNorthey @EENewsUpdates Likewise, Hannah; I’m already feeling it.

@SeanatLarge26 @EENewsUpdates Really going to miss working with you, Sean. You're a talented journalist and a great colleague.

1) [Thread] In personal news, I just wrapped up a 12-year stint with @EENewsUpdates. Next steps TBD, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to have covered Clean Air Act issues in the company of terrific colleagues. Here - in no particular order - are 10 favorite stories:

@amenasaiyid @EENewsUpdates Thanks so much, @amenasaiyid! That means a lot, particularly coming from you.

@SeanatLarge26 @EENewsUpdates Oh Sean. I will miss your superb writing but I know you will be up to something or the other. Eenews is losing a fantastic reporter.

11) If there’s one thing I’ve learned in covering environmental issues over the years, it’s that people often just want government officials to level with them. This story looks at one unusual EPA initiative that sought to do that: eenews.net/articles/epa-w…. #EPA #ethyleneoxide

10) I think of this as one of the first decent stories I wrote for @EENewsUpdates. This Alabama highway project, conceived in the 1960s, is still inching ahead, courtesy of federal taxpayers: eenews.net/articles/feder…. #NorthernBeltline #Alabama #Birmingham

9) In his successful 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously pledged to “drain the swamp.” Here, the great @KevinBogardus and I explored how that pledge was playing out in practice in EPA’s air office: eenews.net/articles/email…. #EPA #AirPollution

8) Back during the first Trump administration, then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a distinctive penchant for trumpeting initiatives that later didn't seem to amount to much. Here’s one example, unearthed via a FOIA request: eenews.net/articles/epa-h…. #EPA #FOIA

7) This piece is kind of in the weeds, but I like it b/c it shows that the projected benefits of major EPA regulatory initiatives don't necessarily shake out evenly: eenews.net/articles/epa-t…. #EPA #refineries #AirPollution

6) Then-Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) was fun to profile, particularly in the context of his proudly acknowledged relationship to his famous father: eenews.net/articles/shust…. #Shuster #Congress

5) If you’ve ever used EPA’s popular Air Quality Index, this story serves as a reminder that government employees, not the private sector, made it happen: eenews.net/articles/what-…. #EPA #AirPollution

4) A recent story on how coal-fired power plant pollution shot up last year, notwithstanding EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s pledge to to ensure clean air for all Americans: eenews.net/articles/air-p…. #EPA #AirPollution

3) When the Trump administration last summer resorted to a procedural shortcut to stave off tighter regulations on coke manufacturers, the public was shut out. Industry, however, was plugged in: eenews.net/articles/recor…. #EPA #AirPollution

2) Fire has always been part of grasslands ecosystems, but increasingly intensive burning in eastern Kansas posed questions about whether agribusiness needs were taking priority over human health: eenews.net/articles/fires…. #Kansas #AirPollution

One business day after a federal judge vacated its media policy, the Pentagon introduced a new one -- and closed down "correspondents' corridor," where journalists covering the military did their work. nytimes.com/2026/03/23/bus…

Noting FWIW that it's very unusual for #EPA to grant enforcement passes within the U.S. because of air pollution from other countries: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR… #AirPollution #Phoenix