New EPA Rules Target Vehicular Toxic Fumes
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Recently issued rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency focus on severely limiting the amount of toxic emissions from cars and trucks.
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The federal safety level for benzene, a leukemia-causing air toxin found throughout Houston and routinely inhaled by petrochemical plant workers, is too high to protect workers from blood cell
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Jun. 23--Portions of Northeast Ohio, already under orders to reduce the amount of the pollutant ozone in the atmosphere, learned this week that the federal government plans to tighten the regulations even more beginning in 2013.
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California air regulators yesterday took up the world&#39;s most ambitious rules to reduce car emissions that contribute to global warming - an effort that could have a sweeping effect on how the country fights vehicle pollution.
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The Bush administration imposed stricter standards on the nation's air quality yesterday for the first time in nearly a decade, ruling that communities across the country must cut back on the amount of soot in the air on any given day.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle Jun. 22--Less than a week after Texas officially asked for an extra nine years to meet federal health standards for ground-level ozone, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing even tighter standards.
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California air-quality regulators have adopted the nation&#39;s first-ever rules to reduce car emissions linked to global warming, an action likely to prompt tough
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - Toxic fumes from gasoline, motor vehicles and fuel containers would be cut significantly under new federal rules the Bush administration developed under legal pressure from environmental groups.
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The California Air Resources Board yesterday approved landmark regulation to tackle global warming by forcing cuts in carbon-dioxide exhaust from passenger cars and trucks.
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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - Federal scientists want to tighten smog standards, a step that would allow tens of millions of Americans to breathe easier. The plan also would run head-on into President Bush's hopes of weaning Americans from gasoline by using more smog-producing ethanol.
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California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world&#39;s most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming - a decision that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
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The California Air Resources Board on Friday approved a regulation to require that automakers sell vehicles with reduced emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2009, a move opposed by car companies that could eventually add more than $1,000 to the price of a
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The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wants an exemption to proposed clean-air rules so that it doesn&#39;t have to replace toxic soot-producing diesel equipment with cleaner-burning models.
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Drivers could be prosecuted for smoking if they are judged not to be in full control of their vehicle, according to the latest version of the Highway Code, released on Friday.
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U.S. environmental regulators issued new standards on Friday to reduce the amount of cancer-causing emissions from gasoline, vehicles operating in cold weather and portable gas cans.
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California regulators approved a plan on Friday aimed at drastically reducing over the next 11 years the vehicle emissions of gases that scientists have linked to global warming.