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EPA’s decision to reconsider National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone is a long-awaited step in the right direction
The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reconsider the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone is “a long-awaited step in the right direction,” according to Hayden Hashimoto, attorney for Clean Air Task Force, which represents several other non-profit environmental organizations in the matter. The NAAQS must be set at…
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CATF Air Quality Monitoring Letter
CATF recently submitted a letter to the chairs of the Senate Environment and Public Works and House Energy and Commerce committees encouraging them to include $500 million in funding to update and improve the air quality monitoring system in the U.S.
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Pushing to ensure cleaner air for all on this International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies
On this International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, we recognize the tremendous strides the United States has taken towards cleaner air since 1970 under the federal Clean Air Act. And yet the work to achieve this year’s theme of “Healthy Air, Healthy Planet” is not over. There is…
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Clean Electricity Payment Program and EPA Performance Standards: Beautiful dance partners
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides the strongest statement yet on the climate impacts.
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National Air Toxics Assessment and Cancer Risk in Allegheny County Pennsylvania Updated – May 2021
In August 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the results of its 2014 National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA). More recent data are not yet available. The purpose of NATA is to identify and prioritize air toxics (a subset of chemicals in the air pollution mixture, also called Hazardous…
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EPA to reconsider National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter, returning to science-based expert review
The EPA announced today it will reconsider the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter, which were previously undermined by the Trump Administration. Hayden Hashimoto, CATF Staff Attorney said: “Today’s announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency will be reconsidering the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter represents…
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EPA Rescission of Trump-era Cost-Benefit Rule is an Important Step Forward
The EPA has moved to rescind the Trump-era cost-benefit rule. Hayden Hashimoto, CATF Staff Attorney said: “We are pleased to see another pullback of a Trump EPA rule that was designed to impair efforts to protect public health and the environment. EPA’s action is an important step toward clearing away another Trump midnight rule that put…
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CATF Statement: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Vacates Trump-era EPA Rule
Yesterday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals threw out an eleventh-hour attempt by the Trump Administration to limit greenhouse gas emissions standards to power plants, ignoring all other industrial sources of CO2 that must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The “midnight rule” was immediately challenged in Court by…
