Tag: asthma
Trump EPA Finalizes Weak Rule to Reduce Dangerous Air Pollution from New Gas-Burning Power Plants, Ignores Health Benefits and Lives Saved from Pollution Reduction
The Trump EPA has unveiled a final rule under the Clean Air Act that revises emission limits for dangerous nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution from new gas-burning turbines used in power plants and industrial facilities. Emissions of NOx form smog and soot, which is harmful to human health and linked to serious heart … [continued]
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EPA Cooks The Books On Industrial Pollution Costs
The EPA has now decided it will no longer calculate the cost of fossil fuel pollution on human health in the US.
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The Long US Goodbye to New Gas Connections and the Legal Tools States Are Using to Get There
Gas bans in new buildings moved from obscure municipal policy to national legal conflict in a remarkably short period of time. For most of the past decade, city ordinances limiting or prohibiting new natural gas hookups were treated as a local matter tied to building codes, air quality, and long … [continued]
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Rolling Back Fuel Economy Standards Means Higher Costs for Drivers, and a Worsening Climate
By Josh Valentine & Travis Madsen, SWEEP Even as the Trump administration cranks up the volume on “affordability,” it is quietly moving to dismantle one of the most effective consumer protection policies in transportation: federal fuel economy standards. The latest proposal to weaken Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules would … [continued]
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A Tale Of Two Michigans — Solar vs. Data Center Battle Intensifies
People in rural Michigan are celebrating the defeat of a proposed solar farm that would power an Oracle data center.
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