"E.P.A. Tightens Sulfur Dioxide Limits"
"The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new health standard on Thursday for sulfur dioxide emissions, the first such revision in nearly 40 years."
Source: NYTimes, 06/04/2010
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SO2 Final Rule Scheduled For June 2
Some counties in your region may no longer be in compliance and will need to take new pollution control measures.
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EPA Bars Texas from Issuing Refinery Permit
"The Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to end a long-running dispute with Texas over how the state regulates emissions, including cancer-causing toxins such as benzene and butadiene, from dozens of refineries that produce a third of the nation's gasoline and billions of dollars of petrochemicals."
Source: AP, 05/26/2010
Air Pollution: EPA Proposes Tougher Industrial Boiler Regs
The proposed air toxics standards cover emissions from three types of combustion sources and address emissions of mercury, cadmium, dioxin, furans, formaldehyde, hydrochloric acid, and other pollutants.
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Taxpayer-Funded Feedlots Refuse To Disclose Polluting Emissions
Beef and pork factory farms are exempt from federal requirements to report their greenhouse gas emissions but are okay with accepting federal subsidies to capture their methane emissions and turn them into energy.
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"Burning Oil Sends Heavy Vapor Toward Gulf Residents"
"The EPA is warning that Gulf Coast residents are at risk of headaches, nausea, and other ill health effects; the culprit is air pollution from the oil burns that response teams are conducting to try to keep the big slick away from coastlines."
Source: Grist, 05/04/2010
"Report: Most Americans Still Live in Unclean Air"
"Six in 10 Americans -- about 175 million people -- are living in places where air pollution often reaches dangerous levels, despite progress in reducing particle pollution, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday."
Source: AP, 04/29/2010
"Emissions Often Underestimated, EPA Standards Old"
"The nation's oil and chemical plants are spewing a lot more pollution than they report to the Environmental Protection Agency -- and the EPA knows it. But the federal agency has yet to adopt more accurate, higher-tech measuring methods that have been available for years."
Source: AP, 04/23/2010
"Albuquerque Sees No Let Up In Pollen Despite Law"
"When you combine Albuquerque's few trees with the city's hot, dry and often windy weather, it could mean big problems for allergy sufferers. This despite a 1994 pollen-control ordinance that bars residents from planting certain types of trees."
Source: NPR, 04/21/2010
"Air Pollution Limits Tightened on Baltimore Incinerator"
"The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered air pollution limits tightened on a Baltimore trash-to-energy incinerator after finding the state improperly relaxed them and did not require adequate monitoring of the plant's toxic emissions."
Source: Baltimore Sun, 04/20/2010
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