El Sierra Club y 28 socios presentaron personalmente más de 72.000 comentarios públicos, incluyendo más de 11.600 recolectados por el Sierra Club, urgiendo a la Agencia de Protección Ambiental a proteger la salud pública y abordar la peligrosa contaminación interestatal de ozono adoptando la versión más sólida del propuesto Plan de Buen Vecino (GNP) para los Estándares Nacionales de Calidad del Aire Ambiente (NAAQS) de 2015.
Washington, DC — Today, the Sierra Club and 28 partners personally delivered over 72,000 public comments, including 11,686 comments collected by the Sierra Club, urging the Environmental Protection Agency to protect public health and address dangerous interstate ozone pollution by adopting the strongest possible version of the agency’s proposed Good Neighbor Plan for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).
La Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA) anunció hoy una dramática revisión de los límites en los niveles en el agua de cuatro venenos químicos llamados PFAS.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a dramatic revision to its drinking water limits for four toxic PFAS chemicals. The agency is lowering its lifetime health advisory levels for two PFAS chemicals - PFOS and PFOA - by more than 1000-fold to 20 and 4 parts per quadrillion, respectively. EPA is also setting new health advisories for two common PFAS chemicals that were invented as replacements - known as GenX and PFBS, to 10 and 2000 parts per trillion respectively.
Sierra Club and other public health and environmental groups sued EPA to ensure that the agency takes timely action to reduce ozone pollution across the country. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, on behalf of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, Downwinders at Risk, HEAL Utah, and Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice.
FALLS CHURCH, VA - Today, at Meridian High School, the Biden-Harris administration will announce the Clean School Bus Program, which offers funding for school districts to move dirty diesel buses off their routes and transition to a cleaner school bus fleet. Currently, 95 percent of the nation’s school buses are diesel. Diesel exhaust is a known carcinogen and can lead to or worsen respiratory illnesses like asthma.
Today is the last day of EPA’s comment period for a proposed rule that would reduce pollution from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. The rule that would govern trucks and buses across the nation and impact millions of Americans. The rule would go into effect for model year 2027.
Today, the EPA released a draft technical white paper on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from gas-fired power plants.
Yesterday, on the eve of the first day of a three-day Environmental Protection Agency hearing on the agency’s proposed regulation to clean up pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, 19 organizations sent a letter to the Truck & Engine Manufacturers Association and its members to stop lobbying against stronger federal and state regulations on truck pollution and to establish a 2035 zero-emission truck target for its member organizations.
Today, Public Citizen and the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments joined Sierra Club and others and announced their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to appropriately classify Bexar County and San Antonio as a moderate ozone nonattainment area, thereby requiring reductions in harmful nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds under the the Clean Air Act.
VIRTUAL – Today, elected officials, community activists, and environmental and transportation advocates gathered for a virtual panel to discuss the massive opportunity and responsibility the Environmental Protection Agency has this year to strengthen its proposed regulation to clean up pollution from heavy-duty vehicles.
Washington, DC – Earlier this week, the EPA proposed removing the emergency affirmative defense provisions from operating permit regulations in Title V of the Clean Air Act (CAA).