WASHINGTON, D.C. – An overwhelming majority of scientific experts on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) recommended on Friday that EPA substantially strengthen the national standards for ozone, a harmful pollutant and a main component of smog.
A report released by the Sierra Club today reveals that by strengthening and enforcing federal air quality standards, the owners of 64% of remaining coal plants would be required to more stringently address harmful pollution from their facilities.
In two proposed rules, EPA is taking welcome action to protect the public from millions of tons of toxic coal ash.
Today, President Biden’s EPA proposed tough new federal climate pollution standards for the electric power sector, the nation’s second-largest source of climate-disrupting greenhouse gas pollution.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $400 million in grants for the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to replace dirty diesel buses and transition to cleaner school bus fleets. The Clean School Bus program is a part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021. The program is funded for five years and will distribute over $5 billion to get cleaner school buses on roads.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to strengthen federal clean car standards, which will cut emissions from the transportation sector and help protect our health and our climate. The EPA also announced a proposal to strengthen federal standards that would help clean up pollution from heavy-duty trucks and buses.
EPA is taking action against harmful air pollution from chemical manufacturing facilities.
Today, the EPA proposed strengthening protections against heavy metals, mercury and other hazardous air pollution emitted from power plants, protecting vulnerable communities from some of the most dangerous types of air pollution.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) emitió una excepción a la Ley de Aire Limpio que permite a California implementar su regla de Avance de Camiones Limpios (ACT).
A coalition of environmental, public health, and community groups submitted nearly 600,000 public comments to EPA in support of strong national ambient air quality standards for soot
Environmental justice and public health advocates from Illinois, New Jersey, and Texas will deliver over 7,000 public comments to EPA urging the agency to eliminate all unlawful loopholes from federal clean air rules.
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) emitió hoy sus primeros estándares legales en relación con los llamados PFAS o “químicos eternos, proponiendo un límite de no más de 4 partes por billón (ppb) de cada compuesto en el agua potable.