EPA Wants to Tighten Smog Standards
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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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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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The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that don't meet new clean air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants &#151; microscopic soot.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to reduce diesel exhaust from trains and ships, a move supported by some environmentalists.
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WHEEZE: Mayors and economic development officials say a growing number of businesses are not inclined to expand or open new plants in areas cited by the Environmental Protection Agency as "non-attainment zones," with too much smog-causing ozone or microscopic soot.
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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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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 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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By ALAN ZIBEL  WASHINGTON - Environmental activists on Thursday said more stringent air-quality regulations are needed for oil refineries along the Gulf Coast, a region densely populated with petroleum industry plants.
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Environment secretary calls on US to agree to binding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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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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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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WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that do not meet new clean-air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants: microscopic soot.
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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 BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - New state restrictions on power plants' mercury emissions that go further than federal standards, but are still too weak in the eyes of some environmental groups, are expected to gain approval today from the Board of Natural Resources.
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California today sued the EPA today for blocking a law that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its cars at a stricter rate than the federal Clean Air Act standards. Fifteen other states have joined California in the lawsuit.
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By Traci Watson  Environmental groups and industry groups reacted coolly Thursday, though for different reasons, to a proposal to cut the level of smog allowed in the USA's air.    The Environmental Protection Agency announced a plan to reduce the smog limit by 11% to 17%.