The Environmental Protection Agency will delay its previously announced plans to tightenair qualitystandards for ground-level ozone, or smog, until after the 2024 presidential election. The decision byEPA administrator Michael Reganto delay one of the agency's most consequential air ...
“Enforcing emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants is critical to protecting the air we breathe and ensuring companies play by the rules,” said Ethan Knight, Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “We will vigorously prosecute any company that risk...
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released stricter air quality standards that will better protect Americas families, workers and communities from the dangerous and costly health effects of fine particle pollution. The annual national ambient air quality standard for fine particulate matter...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced its decision to retain the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) under the Clean Air Act. However, the new Biden EPA is all but certain to reevaluate the ...
from Tribes and territories. Additionally, the Inflation Reduction Act statute requires that at least $400 million of the program’s funding go to projects that will serve one or more communities dealing with significant pollution as defined by EPA’s National Ambient Air ...
5-8 To this end, daily AQIs (which are universally driven by fine particulate matter <2.5 μm [PM2.5] or ozone levels in the US) have undergone progressive updates to meet the increasingly stringent US National Ambient Air Quality Standards based on advancing scientific evidence over time.1 ...
Negative health effects were often seen at pollution levelsmuch lowerthan current US ambient air quality standards. TheAmerican Lung Association callsparticle pollution one of the “least well-controlled pollutants in the United States” and one of the most dangerous. ...
The EPA has released its annual report on air quality trends showing that, while air quality continues to improve, approximately 107 million Americans in 1997 lived in areas that did not meet the ambient air quality standards for at least one of six major pollutants: 1. carbon monoxide, 2. ...
The EPA would be able--in concert with the states--to set and enforce standards for air and water quality and for individual pollutants. Industries seeking to minimize the adverse impact of their activities on the environment would be assured of consistent standards covering the full range of th...
Margo Oge, a former director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, said medium and heavy diesel trucks make up less than 6% of vehicles on the road "but spew more than half the smog and soot Americans breathe" and contribute to global warming. The EPA standards "are a...