Pennsylvania DEP Joins Coalition of States Suing U.S. EPA Over Airborne Soot Standards
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To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: Kurt M. Knaus, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, +1-717-787-1323  HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- Automobile manufacturers sued Tuesday to block California regulators from adopting the world&#39;s toughest vehicle-emissions standards, arguing in a lawsuit that the standards are the federal government&#39;s responsibility.
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DENVER, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Environmental Defense slammed the State of Colorado for joining Alabama and some of the biggest polluters in the nation in fighting against cleaner, healthier air for America by filing a brief today in the U.S.
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The EPA findings will require 20 states and the District to devise strategies to reduce dangerous levels of soot pollution in the air.
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Environmental groups Sierra Club and Environmental Defense on Tuesday asked the U.S.
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By The Associated Press  MORGANTOWN - Opponents of a $1 billion, coal-fired power plant are trying once again to halt the construction, filing a federal lawsuit that claims an air quality permit for the project expired in 2005.  The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S.
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New York Gov. George Pataki and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are pressing Congress to protect key parts of the Clean Air Act as lawmakers and the Bush administration seek to change the law.
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Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.
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A federal class-action lawsuit filed in Boston yesterday on behalf of Massachusetts smokers demands that Philip Morris USA Inc. pay for computerized chest scans for its customers in an effort to detect early-stage lung cancer.
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By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle  Mar. 10--In a move that would stymie Mayor Bill White's plans to clean up Houston's air, two state lawmakers have filed legislation that would prohibit local governments from regulating pollution coming from outside their boundaries.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  An environmental group says the fees that West Virginia charges large air polluters to fund its air permit program are below the minimum required by federal law.
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By Madeleine Mathias, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Mar. 4--The public will have a 60-day period to comment in writing on the proposed settlement of a $1.5 million civil penalty for the 2005 fly ash spill into the Delaware River at the PPL Corp.
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The attorneys general of five states and the U.S. Virgin Islands filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to try to force the government to reduce pesticide use in public housing projects.
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The EPA finsings will require 20 states and the District to devise strategies to reduce dangerous levels of soot pollution in the air.
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U.S. automakers on Tuesday  challenged California's new air quality regulations to reduce  exhaust pipe emissions from cars and trucks.
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Maryland and two other states announced Wednesday a settlement of their lawsuits against Brown &amp; Williamson Tobacco Co. over its &quot;Kool Mixx&quot; campaign, which officials claimed targeted African-American youth.
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Loopholes in state laws that regulate hazardous emissions pose a serious risk to the health of millions of Americans and need to be revised, according to a report published this week.