States Sue EPA Over Soot Levels
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By MICHAEL GORMLEY  ALBANY, N.Y. - More than a dozen states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.
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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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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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New York State sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday to force the cleanup of a decades-old, 17 million gallon oil spill in New York City.
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Greenhouse gases that spur global warming are on the docket at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that pits environmental groups against the U.S. agency meant to shield Americans from pollution.
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including residents of the District of Columbia, large swaths of Maryland and much of northern Virginia -- live in areas with dangerous levels of soot
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California sued the E.P.A. on Wednesday, challenging its recent decision to block California rules curbing greenhouse-gas emissions from new cars and trucks.
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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 Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 22--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday adopted new limits on tiny soot that might be a threat to public health.   The limits announced in a teleconference by EPA Administrator Stephen L.
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The Golden State filed suit on Wednesday for the right to limit greenhouse-gas emissions from autos.
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By Curtis Killman, Tulsa World, Okla.  Mar. 8--Oklahoma environmental regulators are shortchanging themselves  millions of dollars annually in permit fees levied against large air  polluters, a nonprofit group claims.
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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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New York State moved to sue Exxon Mobil and four other companies to force them to clean up millions of gallons of oil lying under Greenpoint.
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 225 counties in 20 states and the District of Columbia failed federal air standards because of microscopic soot from
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Environmental groups are still angry over an assertion made before the Supreme Court a month ago during arguments in a far-reaching clean air lawsuit.
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California sues carmakers over gas emissions    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- California has sued the world 's largest automobile manufacturers, seeking billions of dollars for environmental damage caused by gas emissions.
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By Don Pyle; Alexandra Smith  Owners and developers of polluted properties in Oregon got a big boost from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when it ruled private parties that voluntarily clean polluted sites can sue other responsible parties for the costs.