March 12, 2024 Tweet EPA is moving to restore an air pollution “nuisance” rule as part of Ohio’s state implementation plan (SIP) for meeting federal air quality standards, reversing a Trump-era decision to scrap the measure, after a federal appeals court found environmentalists had standing...
January 2, 2024 Tweet EPA is asking a federal appellate court to extend until the end of January its pause on litigation challenging Trump-era national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM), saying it will need until then to issue its final rule expected to strengt...
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 ...
The article focuses on the U.S. EPA's finalization of stricter air quality standards on Feb. 7, 2024, aimed at reducing fine particle pollution, known as soot, to safeguard workers and others from its health impacts, such as asthma and heart attacks.Professional Safety...
by the Environmental Integrity Project and other environmental groups concerning EPA’s air toxics standards these facilities and the need to strengthen flaring requirements. Now, EPA must propose a rule with potentially updated pollution limits by March of 2023, and a final rule by March of...
February 12, 2024 To support effective monitoring and compliance with safety standards, this article provides an overview on best practices for air sampling at work. Wildfire smoke shows need for urgent action on worker protections, says National COSH June 8, 2023 The wildfire smoke spreading acro...
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 ...
“These illegal practices contribute to harmful air pollution and impede federal, state, and local efforts to implement air quality standards that protect public health. Emissions from mobile sources play a particularly important role in EPA’s Southeastern region, and the use of these defeat dev...
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 ...
‘regulation of the modification and construction of any stationary source within the areas covered by the plan as necessary to assure that national ambient air quality standards are achieved, including a permit program as required in parts C and D of this subchapter.’ This new requirement woul...