Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Kudos to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for announcing today that EPA would abandon a change imposed by the Bush administration that politicized the agency's responsibility to define clean air based solely on the best understanding of science and health information. Jackson...continued→
Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
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→
Posted by John Walke in Health and the Environment
NAM, industry's illegal war, and the smell of ozone in the morning: Industry is waging a carpet-bombing lobbying campaign, led by the National Association of Manufacturers or NAM, urging EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to defy the law and adopt a...continued→
