EPA must close loopholes in emissions law
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Loopholes in state laws that regulate hazardous emissions pose a serious risk to the health of millions of Americans and need to be revised, according to a report published this week.
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A proposed European Union law would allow courts to close companies responsible for environmental disasters and imprison executives for up to five years.
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Four Senate bills offer market-based ways to reduce emissions of greenhouse emissions.
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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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Pressure mounted on the Bush administration yesterday to allow states to impose their own regulations on vehicle emissions.
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Governors of 20 U.S. states must slash levels of tiny particles spewed by power plants, cars and other sources by 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Friday.
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Dissatisfied with the agency's greenhouse-gas emissions program, labor leaders are pleading for congressional intervention.
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By Nardone, Ralph On Nov. 16, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) submitted mercury emissions rules to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which will require stricter mercury emissions reductions for state-based industries.
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The EPA tightens its rules on very small particles, but not enough to satisfy environmentalists
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After years of stalemate, Washington decision makers are poised this year to impose new federal requirements aimed at curbing air pollution from power plants that each year cuts short the lives of 24,000 Americans.
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The EPA wants to increase the minimum amount of alternative fuels used in vehicles, but the bar is set below the industry trend.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 22--Pima County's air could be out of compliance with federal limits  in a few years because of a new federal proposal to tighten up regulations  protecting the air from the primary ingredient in smog.
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WASHINGTON _ Environmental Protection Agency officials on Monday defended their decision to close several agency libraries and replace them with online research collections. "When libraries go digital, everyone benefits," EPA Deputy Administrator Marcus Peacock said.
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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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By Paul Burgarino  Representatives from one of the worst air pollution regions in California voted last week to join the state in a possible lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency concerning emissions regulations for newer-model cars.
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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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The auto industry says it can't meet California's proposed C02 emissions regulations and argues the state has no authority to adopt them anyway. Proponents of the tougher regulations say the industry is blowing smoke.