The Clean Air Act has protected Americans and the air we breathe from harmful pollution for 40 years, saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. But some members of Congress are now attempting to dismantle the Clean Air Act and undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to reduce air pollution and safeguard our health.
Since 1970, as scientists and doctors identified additional threats to our health, the Clean Air Act safe-guarded us from deadly pollutants. But now some Senators and House members are threatening to interfere with the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gases and enforce the clean up of polluting power plants. Congress should never undermine the Clean Air Act or EPA's ability to hold big polluters accountable for the destructive pollution they release into our air.
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Posted February 9, 2012 by Adrianna Quintero in Curbing Pollution, Environmental Justice
A study released today by the coal industry attempts to justify dirty energy and life-threatening pollution by claiming that Hispanics and blacks will be hit hardest by energy price increases. The study by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity...continued→
Posted February 8, 2012 by John Walke in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Americans continue to support clean air safeguards in resounding numbers [pdf], yet Congressional Republicans persist in attacking standard after life-saving standard to reduce dangerous air pollution. This week is no exception to that deadly rule. The House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and...continued→
Posted February 3, 2012 by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
In their latest attack on vital clean air safeguards, three senior House Republicans are trying to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from doing its job under the Clean Air Act to protect Americans from dangerous carbon pollution from new power...continued→
Posted February 1, 2012 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
How about a little good news for a change? Something strange happened after the failure of comprehensive climate and energy legislation in 2010. Projections of future carbon emissions went down. Part of that is due to the Great Recession of...continued→
Posted January 27, 2012 by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Margo Oge, EPA’s Director of Office of Transportation and Air Quality, has confirmed what I wrote in my Tier 3 post last week, which described the agency’s possible approach in its upcoming proposal to create a new rule to reduce emissions...continued→
Posted January 25, 2012 by Sasha Lyutse in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
Last summer, EPA temporarily exempted the carbon emitted from burning biomass from pollution standards under the Clean Air Act and convened a panel of scientific experts to advise it on crafting rules for the treatment of biomass. Last week, that...continued→
Posted January 19, 2012 by Nick Magrisso in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
For the past 40 years the Clean Air Act has protected Americans from harmful air pollution and saved hundreds of thousands of the lives. But this bedrock environmental law has recently come under unprecedented, breathtaking assault by an increasingly hostile Congress....continued→
Posted January 17, 2012 by Rich Kassel in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, The Media and the Environment, U.S. Law and Policy
Last week, I wrote about the need to move Tier 3 forward, which followed up on a letter that the leaders of NRDC, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists sent to EPA Administrator...continued→
Posted January 15, 2012 by David Doniger in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming
When EPA released the first comprehensive “right-to-know” data on America’s biggest carbon polluters last week, there was a curious reaction from the one of the biggest industries involved. As expected, the 2010 data show that coal-burning power plants are the...continued→
Posted January 11, 2012 by Adrianna Quintero in Health and the Environment
Yesterday, President Obama visited the Environmental Protection Agency for an employee town hall to praise the work of the agency on protecting the environment and public health. In his first time ever visit to EPA, Obama told the staff that...continued→
