http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/tag/air+toxics air+toxics news from TucsonSentinel.com - Tucson's independent nonprofit online news en Copyright 2013 2013-05-21T03:13:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112811_epa_ruckelshaus/ex-adminstrator-epa-has-battered-agency-syndrome/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112811_epa_ruckelshaus/ex-adminstrator-epa-has-battered-agency-syndrome/ 03:13:00Z Dylan Smith We asked Republican William D. Ruckelshaus, the Environmental Protection Agency’s first and fifth administrator, why administration after administration has failed to rein in dangerous emissions. 2013-05-21T03:13:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112811_epa_air_numbers/pollution-by-numbers/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/112811_epa_air_numbers/pollution-by-numbers/ 03:13:00Z Dylan Smith From Tonawanda, N.Y., to Hayden, hundreds of U.S. communities are still exposed to pollutants, which can cause cancer, birth defects and other health issues — more than 20 years after passage of the Clean Air Act. 2013-05-21T03:13:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112311_epa_toxics_law/politics-industry-and-epa-stymie-air-toxics-crackdown/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112311_epa_toxics_law/politics-industry-and-epa-stymie-air-toxics-crackdown/ 03:13:00Z Dylan Smith The stumbling, two-decade-old war on hazardous air pollutants — declared on Nov. 15, 1990, the day President George H. W. Bush signed the Clean Air Act amendments into law — has stalled on bureaucratic dawdling, industry resistance, legal maneuvering, limited resources and politics. 2013-05-21T03:13:58+00:00 http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112311_epa_emissions_regs/studies-mercury-soot-limits-could-save-billions-improve-health/ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/112311_epa_emissions_regs/studies-mercury-soot-limits-could-save-billions-improve-health/ 03:13:00Z Dylan Smith In the face of opposition from industry and Republicans, the Environmental Protection Agency is attempting to reduce harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants that studies have linked to illnesses and tens of thousands of premature deaths every year. 2013-05-21T03:13:58+00:00