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EPA Reconsiders Weak and Illegal Bush Administration Smog Standards

September 16, 2009

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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airpollution, environmentallaw, EPA, smog

Good news for clean air today. The Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is reconsidering the Bush administration's heavily criticized 2008 air quality standards for ground-level ozone pollution (smog). This step followed a lawsuit and reconsideration petition filed by the Natural...continued

Surely You Must Be Joking

February 19, 2009

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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cleanairact, environmentallaw, EPA, newsourcereview

"Surely you must be joking." -- Ted Striker, Airplane I knew the Bush administration's midnight environmental regulations were bad. Rushed, sloppy, deregulatory favors to polluters, illegal. All of that. But my latest favorite falls into the "Surely you must be joking"...continued

Science Decider in Chief

March 17, 2008

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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bushadministration, cleanairact, environmentallaw, EPA, ozone, ozonestandard, presidentbush, science

The Clean Air Act reserves to "the judgment of the [EPA] Administrator" alone, as a matter of law, the revision of the secondary “public welfare” standard for ozone and other air pollution. This legal standard must be based on what...continued

John Walke
John Walke
Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney
Washington, D.C.
As a senior attorney and the Director of NRDC's Clean Air Program, I work on...
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