Tag: Clean Air Act
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Oil Giant Citgo Gets Slap On the Wrist for 10 Years of Illegal Operations
A foreign oil company convicted of polluting a Texas community’s air with dangerous chemicals…
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EPA Proposes New Rules to Curb Air Pollution From Oil Industry
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal aiming to curb air pollution discharged …
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64 Groups From Across U.S. Demand Federal Limits on Air Pollution From Fracking Wells
Today, a robust coalition of 64 local, state and national groups filed a petition calling on the U.S. EPA…
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Obama’s Climate Change Agenda Faces Supreme Court Hearing
[caption id="attachment_322883" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] By Vickie Patton Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case challenging EPA’s interpretation that the Clean Air Act permit program requiring new and rebuilt industrial sources to deploy leading pollution control technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Act applies to greenhouse…
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Science on Trial: Big Oil Funds Attacks on EPA Air Pollution Standards
By Farron Cousins Both the science behind climate change and the efficacy of life-saving safety standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had a trying week in Washington, D.C., as industry-backed lawsuits and politicians attempted to undermine the entire scientific community. [caption id="attachment_315444" align="alignnone" width="500"] Last week, the EPA’s health standards on industry air…