EPA Announces Proposal for Stricter Ozone Standards
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The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed reducing allowable ozone air pollution by as much as 20 percent in coming decades, setting up a battle with business and industry groups who feel current standards are adequate.
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The Energy Department on Friday proposed to let states decide whether to increase the required efficiency of residential furnaces much beyond what's now on the market, rejecting calls for significantly tougher national standards.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that current smog standards don't sufficiently protect public health and proposed tightening them for the first time in a decade.
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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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The Bush administration is making headway with other nations in setting new global standards to reduce dangerous emissions from giant diesel-burning ships that are polluting U.S. ports, a senior environmental official said Thursday. An emergency room physician described a "diesel death zone" around major U.S. seaports, with higher cancer rates and other health risks.
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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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By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 3--Houston is trying to become the first place in Texas to set a standard for hazardous air pollutants, a move that would make the city stricter than the state and federal government in policing the amount of cancer-causing substances in its air.
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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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By JOHN HEILPRIN  WASHINGTON - Federal scientists want to tighten smog standards, a step that would allow tens of millions of Americans to breathe easier but also would clash with President Bush's plan to wean Americans away from gasoline.
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California air regulators on Thursday took up the world's most ambitious rules to reduce car emissions that contribute to global warming &#151; an effort that could have a sweeping effect on how the country fights vehicle pollution.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  May 26--The federal Environmental Protection Agency continues to press the state over last-minute changes that appear to weaken an ozone clean-up for Dallas-Fort Worth.
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Seven years after establishing a new national health standard for fine particle pollution, which has been linked to thousands of deaths each year, the US Environmental Protection Agency yesterday began enforcing it.
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The government has announced new regulations that will limit fish farms and require better treatment of wastewater, among other measures.
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Officials in Californian announce tough new regulations to stem the emission of greenhouse gases from cars.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 7--Local leaders are becoming frustrated with the ongoing efforts to devise a plan to clean up ozone in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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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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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE DENVER - Colorado's top legislative leaders asked the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to approve California's tighter emissions standards for cars, which could open the door for a similar law to be passed here in 2008.