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Corbin covers the use and regulation of chemicals as well as their impacts on human health and the environment for E&E News, where he has worked since 2014. His reporting on oil and gas development in national wildlife refuges for Greenwire won a National Press Club award. He previously covered environmental policy at SNL Energy and the Center for Public Integrity and has freelanced for The Economist, Mother Jones and many other publications. As an editor, he has worked at The Huffington Post and PBS MediaShift. He has a degree in international relations from Bowdoin College.
Since January, Republicans have been in control of the White House and Congress and added a conservative justice to the Supreme Court, but one independent agency — the Consumer Product Safety Commission — has remained stubbornly Democratic.
House Democrats today pressed U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for information on how he will prepare the nation's most polluted and hazardous sites for the impacts of climate change.
Environmental and public health groups are gearing up to oppose the nomination of Michael Dourson, President Trump's choice to lead U.S. EPA's Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Office.
U.S. EPA's internal watchdog today called on the agency to realign its workforce to better aid cleanups of the nation's most polluted tracts.
Imports of asbestos are up for the first time in years, raising the stakes on U.S. EPA's ongoing review of the cancer-causing mineral.