Tag: Clean Air Act

Lawmakers say Trump administration policy could allow agency to sideline public health gains when weighing industry costs under the Clean Air Act.

Rollback targets legal basis for greenhouse gas limits as environmental and public health groups prepare lawsuits.

Internal documents show the Trump administration’s EPA is abandoning decades of public health accounting in favor of business compliance costs.

From coal ash delays to dicamba reapproval, Trump’s EPA faces backlash for gutting public health safeguards and empowering polluters.

California plans to challenge the resolutions through legal action.

In a sweeping defense of oil and gas corporations, the Trump administration has filed federal lawsuits against four states to block efforts aimed at holding fossil fuel companies accountable for climate change damages—an aggressive action legal experts warn undermines state authority and sets a dangerous precedent.

It is the largest penalty for Clean Air Act violations at stationary sources, including power plants, factories and refineries, the EPA said.

The Columbia University study offers a comprehensive look at the progress and challenges in air quality improvements across the U.S.

New study reveals coal pollution's dire impact on U.S. public health, with over 460,000 deaths in two decades.

"EPA can no longer look the other way while states unlawfully exempt industrial polluters from vitally important air pollution control requirements.”