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| Washington, DC—The Bush EPA this evening announced a flawed new national air quality standard for ozone “smog†and called for sweeping changes to the Clean Air Act that threaten to fundamentally weaken one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, according to Environment America. | |
| Washington, DC—Environment America and a coalition of states and citizen groups today announced a landmark court settlement with American Electric Power (AEP) that will substantially reduce air pollution from the company’s fleet of aging coal-fired power plants. The coalition sued AEP in 1999 for violating the Clean Air Act’s “New Source Review†rules, which require power companies to install modern pollution controls when otherwise upgrading their plants. | |
| Washington, DC—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new standards to reduce diesel pollution from the nation’s trains, boats, and ships, which are large, long-overlooked pollution sources. Diesel pollution contributes to lung cancer, heat attacks, asthma attacks, strokes, and premature deaths. | |
| WASHINGTON, DC—The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized new national air quality standards for particle “soot†pollution that ignore the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that the standards need to be substantially strengthened to protect Americans from this deadly air pollutant. National air quality standards are the backbone of the Clean Air Act and thus efforts to reduce air pollution nationwide. | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee today voted 10-8 along party lines to confirm William Wehrum as Assistant Administrator for Air & Radiation at EPA, despite his clear record of working to weaken clean air protections at EPA and as a former lawyer representing electric utilities and other industries regulated under the Clean Air Act. | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ninety-six million Americans—32% of the population—live in areas with unsafe levels of fine particle, or “soot,†pollution, according to a new report released today by Environment America. The report is a comprehensive analysis of levels of fine particle pollution in the U.S. in 2004, based on a survey of state environmental agencies. | |
| WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will finalize a major rule on Tuesday to cut diesel air pollution from construction, farm, and industrial equipment by more than 90 percent. The rule essentially extends fuel and emission standards adopted in 2000 for new diesel trucks and buses to non-road applications, such as new diesel backhoes, tractors, and heavy forklifts. | |
| WASHINGTON, D.C.—Ninety-six million Americans—32% of the population—live in areas with unsafe levels of fine particle, or “soot,†pollution, according to a new report released today by Environment America. The report is a comprehensive analysis of levels of fine particle pollution in the U.S. in 2004, based on a survey of state environmental agencies. | |