EPA Says Particle Pollution Down in Some Areas
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The average level of a deadly form of air pollution dropped in the US from 1999 to 2003 as new pollution controls made strides in battling the nation&#39;s air quality problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES A new Environmental Protection Agency report says concentrations of dangerous air pollutants have declined in Southern California in the last five years.
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A study released Friday found the cancer risk from air pollution in Southern California is down 15 percent, but the good news was tempered by the reality that the region still has some of the dirtiest air in the country.
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Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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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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U.S. environmental regulators are  considering removing lead, a heavy metal linked to learning  problems in children, from a list of regulated pollutants  because past rules have greatly reduced levels of the toxin.
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Ranching, mining, energy exploration and other activities that raise dust in the West are helping diminish the snowpack that supplies much of the region's water, a new study says.
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The Bush administration's plans for cutting air pollution could achieve less at certain plants than an existing program targeted by the White House, the National Academy of Sciences suggested Thursday in an interim report.
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ALBANY - New York State is ordering the same emissions restrictions on its power plants that were struck down by a court in May, saying the emissions blamed for acid rain threaten public health, a state official said.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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A new study found that white blood cell counts were lowered in workers exposed to less than 1 ppm of the chemical benzene (part benzene per million parts air).
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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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BAD AIR: The government says 223 counties in 20 states and the District of Columbia flunk new air quality health standards because of airborne soot.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 14--PORTSMOUTH -- SPSA, the regional waste authority, learned this week that burning rain-soaked garbage at its power plant near downtown Portsmouth is not such a good idea.   Actually, it stinks.
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Stockholm, Sweden- Hundreds of European cities and towns restricted auto traffic last month, part of the continent's annual campaign to lower air pollution by encouraging commuters to use public transportation, ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency released an annual report on Monday that showed enforcement actions in the last fiscal year would eliminate a billion pounds of pollution from the nation&#39;s air, land and water.