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• Meet the Members of Congress Who Want to Force EPA to Lie to Us About Whether the Air is Safe to Breathe (May 22, 2012)
• Dirty Secrets Behind the Campaign to Poison Your Air (April 23, 2012)
• There They Go Again: House Republicans Seek to Eliminate Right to Breathe Clean Air, Call it a "Study" (April 16, 2012)
• Radioactive Fallout From Senator Inhofe's Nuclear Legislation to Kill Clean Air Protections (March 23, 2012)
• Why Senator Collins' Boiler Amendment Guts the Clean Air Act and Does Not Just Delay It (March 6, 2012)
• Let Loose the Defenders of Mercury Poisoning (February 16, 2012)
• House G.O.P. Continues Assault on Clean Air Safeguards With Parade of Horribles (February 8, 2012)
• Will Our Elected Representatives Sacrifice 28,000 Lives to Cut a Last-Minute Political Deal? (December 12, 2011)
• Americans Deserve to Have Polluting Boilers and Incinerators Cleaned Up (December 2, 2011)
• Coats-Manchin Bill Sacrifices Americans' Health to Dirty Power (November 11, 2011)
• Extreme Pollution Agenda in Senate Targets Life-Saving Smog & Soot Standards (November 8, 2011)
• "Congressional Hecklers' Veto Act" Subverts Law Enforcement (October 28, 2011)
• Bill Targeting EPA "Farm Dust" Myth Kills Clean Air Act Safeguards Against Industrial Soot Pollution (October 27, 2011)
• Misleading Legislation Uses Nonexistent EPA "Farm Dust" Regulations as Cover to Block Health Safeguards for Industrial Pollution (October 14, 2011)
• House Bills Repeal, Gut Safeguards Against Mercury & Toxic Air Pollution From Cement Plants, Incinerators, Boilers; Would Allow More Premature Deaths, Asthma Attacks (September 30, 2011)
• Why The TRAIN Act's Fig Leaf is Inadequate to Protect Americans From Power Plant Air Pollution (September 23, 2011)
• Correcting Outright Misrepresentations about the TRAIN Act by its Supporters (September 23, 2011)
• Extreme Dirty Air Amendments Launch Pollution Warfare on Americans' Health, Abolish Right to Clean Air (September 20, 2011)
• Oppose the TRAIN Act, the Worst Air Pollution Bill Ever to Reach the House Floor (September 19, 2011)
• Oppose Bills That Repeal Health Safeguards Against Mercury Pollution (September 12, 2011)
• The President Sabotages Clean Air Protections, Part 1 (September 5, 2011)
• GOP's Dirty Air Hit List Sacrifices Americans' Health (September 1, 2011)
• Industry Pleads That EPA Has "Discretion" to Violate Clean Air Act (August 15, 2011)
• Opposing Clean Air Protections, Industry Lobbyists Misrepresent When Updated Standards Must Be Met (August 12, 2011)
• Challenged Industry Lobbyist Retreats From Doomsday Smog Declaration (August 11, 2011)
• Challenging an Industry Lobbyist to Back Up Doomsday Predictions (August 10, 2011)
• Out-of-Control Criticism of EPA (August 8, 2011)
• Capps Amendment to H.R. 2584: Protecting Our Children's Health from Deadly Toxic Air Pollution (July 27, 2011)
• Will Reps. Upton & Whitfield Try to Take Away Americans' Right to Clean Air? (July 22, 2011)
• Industry Lobbies President to Violate Clean Air Act & Defy Supreme Court Ruling (July 19, 2011)
• 240 Million Americans Will Breathe Easier Thanks to New Clean Air Protections (July 7, 2011)
• Why Do Some in Congress Want to Allow More Mercury Pollution, Asthma Attacks and Premature Deaths? (June 27, 2011)
• Desperate Denial: Utility Pollution Apologists Deny Harms From Air Pollution or Health Benefits From Cleaning It Up (June 14, 2011)
• EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: The Right Tool at the Right Time (June 8, 2011)
• House Republicans Announce Attacks on Life-Saving Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (April 14, 2011)
• EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Rule: Bottom Lines and Background (March 16, 2011)
• A Concrete Example of How the REINS Act Would Increase Toxic Pollution, Harming Children & Your Health (March 3, 2011)
• Frequently Asked Questions About the REINS Act (March 2, 2011)
• Mercury and Toxic Pollution Hall of Shame: Meet The Members of Congress That Sided With Corporate Polluters Over Children and Your Health (February 24, 2011)
• Republican Budget Launches Sneak Attacks on Clean Air Protections (February 16, 2011)
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Refuses to Back Up Its EPA Charges (January 31, 2011)
• An Open Challenge to the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal (January 21, 2011)
• Latest Dirty Air Deeds: January 20, 2011 (January 20, 2011)
• What is the Conservative Solution to Pollution? (January 14, 2011)
• Dirty Air Deeds: Week of January 3, 2011 (January 10, 2011)
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Does Not Like Clean Air (November 23, 2010)
• Who Could Be Against Clean Air? (November 18, 2010)
• Deadly Deception: How Some Industry Lobbyists Peddle Deception to Block Clean Air Protections That Will Save Thousands of American Lives Every Year (October 12, 2010)
• Dirty Power: Attack on Clean Air Protections Planned in Senate (July 27, 2010)
• EPA Proposes Rule to Cut Smog and Soot Pollution From Power Plants in the Eastern & Midwestern U.S. (July 6, 2010)
• Hall of Shame (June 11, 2010)
• In Memoriam Blake Early (1945-2010) (February 9, 2010)
• EPA Reconsiders Weak and Illegal Bush Administration Smog Standards (September 16, 2009)
• EPA Restores Scientific Integrity to How We Define Clean Air (May 21, 2009)
• Clean Air and the Rights of Spring (April 29, 2009)
• Surely You Must Be Joking (February 19, 2009)
• Such a Curious Dream: Obama EPA Abandons Bush Mercury Rules (February 6, 2009)
• Clearing the Air (November 25, 2008)
• Court to EPA: “Read the Statute. Read the Statute. Read the Statute.” (August 20, 2008)
• What explains the Bush administration's air pollution agenda for power plants? (August 15, 2008)
• EPA’s “Clean Air Mercury Rule” and the Dog Days of Summer (August 11, 2008)
• Words That Utility Pollution Apologists Dare Not Utter (August 7, 2008)
• EPA Administrator Johnson's CA Waiver Denial: Mind, and Mime Alone (July 31, 2008)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (Part 3): EPA's "Clear Skies" Straitjacket (July 29, 2008)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (Part 2): Today's Senate Hearing (July 29, 2008)
• Bush Environmental Era: Like a Kidney Stone, This Too Shall Pass (July 15, 2008)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule: Blame, Shame, Thy Name is Duke Energy (July 15, 2008)
• Coal Plant Developers Confront The Future of CO2 Controls -- And Freak. (July 2, 2008)
• Science Decider in Chief (March 17, 2008)
• The Mercury Fallout Continues (February 19, 2008)
• F.A.Q. About the Court Decision Overturning EPA’s Illegal Mercury Rule for Power Plants (February 10, 2008)
• On “average,” there is no air pollution (October 16, 2007)
• The Two Faces of Steve (October 15, 2007)
• Good Government at EPA (October 10, 2007)
• EPA: "Toxic Air Pollution? Cancer? Whatever." (August 23, 2007)
• Cheney and the Politics of Air Pollution (June 28, 2007)
• Smog, EPA and NAM (June 21, 2007)

• "Congressional Hecklers' Veto Act" Subverts Law Enforcement (October 28, 2011)
• 240 Million Americans Will Breathe Easier Thanks to New Clean Air Protections (July 7, 2011)
• A Concrete Example of How the REINS Act Would Increase Toxic Pollution, Harming Children & Your Health (March 3, 2011)
• Americans Deserve to Have Polluting Boilers and Incinerators Cleaned Up (December 2, 2011)
• An Open Challenge to the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal (January 21, 2011)
• Bill Targeting EPA "Farm Dust" Myth Kills Clean Air Act Safeguards Against Industrial Soot Pollution (October 27, 2011)
• Bush Environmental Era: Like a Kidney Stone, This Too Shall Pass (July 15, 2008)
• Capps Amendment to H.R. 2584: Protecting Our Children's Health from Deadly Toxic Air Pollution (July 27, 2011)
• Challenged Industry Lobbyist Retreats From Doomsday Smog Declaration (August 11, 2011)
• Challenging an Industry Lobbyist to Back Up Doomsday Predictions (August 10, 2011)
• Cheney and the Politics of Air Pollution (June 28, 2007)
• Clean Air and the Rights of Spring (April 29, 2009)
• Clearing the Air (November 25, 2008)
• Coal Plant Developers Confront The Future of CO2 Controls -- And Freak. (July 2, 2008)
• Coats-Manchin Bill Sacrifices Americans' Health to Dirty Power (November 11, 2011)
• Correcting Outright Misrepresentations about the TRAIN Act by its Supporters (September 23, 2011)
• Court to EPA: “Read the Statute. Read the Statute. Read the Statute.” (August 20, 2008)
• Deadly Deception: How Some Industry Lobbyists Peddle Deception to Block Clean Air Protections That Will Save Thousands of American Lives Every Year (October 12, 2010)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (Part 2): Today's Senate Hearing (July 29, 2008)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (Part 3): EPA's "Clear Skies" Straitjacket (July 29, 2008)
• Demise of the Clean Air Interstate Rule: Blame, Shame, Thy Name is Duke Energy (July 15, 2008)
• Desperate Denial: Utility Pollution Apologists Deny Harms From Air Pollution or Health Benefits From Cleaning It Up (June 14, 2011)
• Dirty Air Deeds: Week of January 3, 2011 (January 10, 2011)
• Dirty Power: Attack on Clean Air Protections Planned in Senate (July 27, 2010)
• Dirty Secrets Behind the Campaign to Poison Your Air (April 23, 2012)
• EPA Administrator Johnson's CA Waiver Denial: Mind, and Mime Alone (July 31, 2008)
• EPA Proposes Rule to Cut Smog and Soot Pollution From Power Plants in the Eastern & Midwestern U.S. (July 6, 2010)
• EPA Reconsiders Weak and Illegal Bush Administration Smog Standards (September 16, 2009)
• EPA Restores Scientific Integrity to How We Define Clean Air (May 21, 2009)
• EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Rule: Bottom Lines and Background (March 16, 2011)
• EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: The Right Tool at the Right Time (June 8, 2011)
• EPA: "Toxic Air Pollution? Cancer? Whatever." (August 23, 2007)
• EPA’s “Clean Air Mercury Rule” and the Dog Days of Summer (August 11, 2008)
• Extreme Dirty Air Amendments Launch Pollution Warfare on Americans' Health, Abolish Right to Clean Air (September 20, 2011)
• Extreme Pollution Agenda in Senate Targets Life-Saving Smog & Soot Standards (November 8, 2011)
• F.A.Q. About the Court Decision Overturning EPA’s Illegal Mercury Rule for Power Plants (February 10, 2008)
• Frequently Asked Questions About the REINS Act (March 2, 2011)
• GOP's Dirty Air Hit List Sacrifices Americans' Health (September 1, 2011)
• Good Government at EPA (October 10, 2007)
• Hall of Shame (June 11, 2010)
• House Bills Repeal, Gut Safeguards Against Mercury & Toxic Air Pollution From Cement Plants, Incinerators, Boilers; Would Allow More Premature Deaths, Asthma Attacks (September 30, 2011)
• House G.O.P. Continues Assault on Clean Air Safeguards With Parade of Horribles (February 8, 2012)
• House Republicans Announce Attacks on Life-Saving Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (April 14, 2011)
• In Memoriam Blake Early (1945-2010) (February 9, 2010)
• Industry Lobbies President to Violate Clean Air Act & Defy Supreme Court Ruling (July 19, 2011)
• Industry Pleads That EPA Has "Discretion" to Violate Clean Air Act (August 15, 2011)
• Latest Dirty Air Deeds: January 20, 2011 (January 20, 2011)
• Let Loose the Defenders of Mercury Poisoning (February 16, 2012)
• Meet the Members of Congress Who Want to Force EPA to Lie to Us About Whether the Air is Safe to Breathe (May 22, 2012)
• Mercury and Toxic Pollution Hall of Shame: Meet The Members of Congress That Sided With Corporate Polluters Over Children and Your Health (February 24, 2011)
• Misleading Legislation Uses Nonexistent EPA "Farm Dust" Regulations as Cover to Block Health Safeguards for Industrial Pollution (October 14, 2011)
• On “average,” there is no air pollution (October 16, 2007)
• Oppose Bills That Repeal Health Safeguards Against Mercury Pollution (September 12, 2011)
• Oppose the TRAIN Act, the Worst Air Pollution Bill Ever to Reach the House Floor (September 19, 2011)
• Opposing Clean Air Protections, Industry Lobbyists Misrepresent When Updated Standards Must Be Met (August 12, 2011)
• Out-of-Control Criticism of EPA (August 8, 2011)
• Radioactive Fallout From Senator Inhofe's Nuclear Legislation to Kill Clean Air Protections (March 23, 2012)
• Republican Budget Launches Sneak Attacks on Clean Air Protections (February 16, 2011)
• Science Decider in Chief (March 17, 2008)
• Smog, EPA and NAM (June 21, 2007)
• Such a Curious Dream: Obama EPA Abandons Bush Mercury Rules (February 6, 2009)
• Surely You Must Be Joking (February 19, 2009)
• The Mercury Fallout Continues (February 19, 2008)
• The President Sabotages Clean Air Protections, Part 1 (September 5, 2011)
• The Two Faces of Steve (October 15, 2007)
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Does Not Like Clean Air (November 23, 2010)
• The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Refuses to Back Up Its EPA Charges (January 31, 2011)
• There They Go Again: House Republicans Seek to Eliminate Right to Breathe Clean Air, Call it a "Study" (April 16, 2012)
• What explains the Bush administration's air pollution agenda for power plants? (August 15, 2008)
• What is the Conservative Solution to Pollution? (January 14, 2011)
• Who Could Be Against Clean Air? (November 18, 2010)
• Why Do Some in Congress Want to Allow More Mercury Pollution, Asthma Attacks and Premature Deaths? (June 27, 2011)
• Why Senator Collins' Boiler Amendment Guts the Clean Air Act and Does Not Just Delay It (March 6, 2012)
• Why The TRAIN Act's Fig Leaf is Inadequate to Protect Americans From Power Plant Air Pollution (September 23, 2011)
• Will Our Elected Representatives Sacrifice 28,000 Lives to Cut a Last-Minute Political Deal? (December 12, 2011)
• Will Reps. Upton & Whitfield Try to Take Away Americans' Right to Clean Air? (July 22, 2011)
• Words That Utility Pollution Apologists Dare Not Utter (August 7, 2008)

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