Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:45:25 +0000
Two IT air quality data systems that inform the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) regulatory and compliance decisions are outdated, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has suggested. The federal […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carter Clements| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:22:13 +0000
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 2023 published a proposed rule that would establish new source performance standards (NSPS) and existing source performance standards (ESPS) for greenhouse gas […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 09:02:46 +0000
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled new greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for the nation’s power plants, moving to require both existing and new facilities to capture emissions of […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:50:10 +0000
It has taken over 20 years, but EPA has finalized its next step in reducing pollution from new trucks. Unfortunately, it falls short of what states are already doing. On paper it may appear to align with aspects of the most stringent option considered by the agency in its proposal, but many of the finalized changes in […]
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:10:43 +0000
A couple years ago, I detailed how an industry designed to increase and sell devices tampering with pollution controls was trying to use the extremely small slice of its business targeted at racing as a Trojan horse to hinder EPA enforcement and let loose a bevy of tampering devices on the American public. Since then, […]
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:13:41 +0000
The U.S. Supreme Court has curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) options for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) from power plants, an important environmental decision that could impact the federal government’s authority to enforce other regulations. The court in a 6-3 vote, with conservatives in the majority, on June 30 said the EPA does […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 04:15:46 +0000
If you care about having clean water and air, then pay close attention to the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing on West Virginia v. EPA later this month. What is at stake is nothing less than the nitty gritty work of turning sweeping laws passed by Congress into enforceable policies and regulations. Federal agencies like the Environmental Protection […]
Credit to Author: NRDC| Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 12:10:06 +0000
Climate change is a public health crisis, and we need every doctor, nurse, and other health professional to help fight it
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:58:07 +0000
One-third of all Americans live in areas that suffered through at least 100 days of poor air quality due to air pollution in 2018, according to a new report by Environment America Research & Policy Center, Frontier Group and U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:49:52 +0000
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a change to a long-standing policy interpreting “ambient air”—a foundational concept under the Clean Air Act that applies to all types of air pollution, from ground-level ozone, particulate matter, and greenhouse gases. While the agency framed the change as part of a suite of actions to reform New Source […]
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