EPA's new soot rules tamer than expected
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The government on Thursday announced new limits on how many tiny particles of soot that people safely can breathe each day, rejecting tougher standards recommended by its own experts.
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After decades of criticism from car owners and environmentalists, the EPA has revised its fuel-mileage estimates for new cars in the U.S.
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WASHINGTON -- An Environmental Protection Agency report charging that the agency undermined its own lawsuits against air polluters by changing key regulations was praised Friday by environmentalists and condemned by industry groups and the EPA itself.
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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 agency strikes down the state's tough new rules on carbon emissions, in a move environmentalists call a crippling setback
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When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States.
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Southern California's smog-fighting agency went after emissions of the bovine variety Friday, adopting the nation's first rules to reduce air pollution from dairy cow manure.
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California air-quality regulators  on Friday adopted the nation's first-ever rules to reduce car  emissions linked to global warming, an action likely to prompt  tough pollution standards in other states and a legal challenge  by the auto industry.
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Some believe that simpler rules may be more effective than computer models when it comes to protecting the environment.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offered tighter standards for ozone pollution for the first time since 1997 but critics said on Thursday the proposal is more lax than what the EPA's own experts recommended.
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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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California air-quality regulators on Friday adopted the nation&#39;s first-ever rules to reduce car emissions linked to global warming, an action likely to prompt tough pollution standards in other states and a legal challenge by the
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As Congress eyes a boost to fuel-economy standards, auto industry hints that safety could be compromised. Some experts disagree.
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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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Despite stricter rules about where people can smoke, higher per-pack prices and dire predic tions of health consequences, more people are smoking in Alabama.
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The auto industry has decided to embrace the new fuel standards out of Washington. But it is still fighting tougher state laws.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has enjoyed unusual success in bringing down pollution levels from some of the nation's largest oil refining companies.