clean air act
Posted Apr 22, 2022, 6:28 am
Endia Fontanez
/Cronkite News
El 84% de las personas en Arizona viven en comunidades que recibieron calificaciones de "F" por la calidad del aire, con los condados de Maricopa y Pinal entre los más contaminados y los condados de Pima y Gila siguiéndolos.... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2022, 6:19 am
Endia Fontanez
/Cronkite News
84% of people in Arizona live in communities that received “F” grades for their air quality based on high ozone days and high particle pollution days, with Maricopa and Pinal counties among the most polluted and Pima and Gila counties following.... Read more»
Posted Oct 21, 2020, 3:10 pm
Lisa Song & Lylla Younes/ProPublica
Particulate matter kills people. That was true before the pandemic, and new research has tied it to coronavirus deaths. But the EPA is ignoring scientists who say stricter particulate matter limits could prevent tens of thousands of early deaths.... Read more»
Posted Apr 2, 2020, 3:26 pm
Jessica Myers
/Cronkite News
The Environmental Protection Agency this week defended its plans to waive some environmental compliance requirements in the face of the coronavirus, insisting the temporary policy is “not a license to pollute.” ... Read more»
Posted Mar 27, 2020, 3:32 pm
Mitchell Ferman
/Texas Tribune
A Texas environmental protection group said it is "reckless" for the Environmental Protection Agency to waive enforcement of many protections. The federal agency said companies could have trouble complying due to the new coronavirus.... Read more»
Posted Dec 31, 2019, 1:50 pm
James Carr
/Cronkite News
The U.S. imports most of the uranium it uses because it’s cheaper to buy from other countries. The Trump administration wants to change that and is looking into creating quotas on domestic use. This could affect the temporary ban now in place on uranium mining in and around Grand Canyon.... Read more»
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Posted Jun 12, 2019, 12:25 pm
Tim Royan
/Cronkite News
Federal judges are weighing whether the U.S. can be held legally responsible for failing to protect future generations from climate change. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 21, 2015, 11:42 am
Aubrey Rumore
/Cronkite News
Federal officials approved a multi-year deal last week to allow expanded mining of coal on Navajo lands and continued burning of it at the nearby Four Corners Power Plant, along with other measures.... Read more»
Posted Apr 21, 2013, 11:15 am
Jim Morris & Chris Hamby/Center for Public Integrity
As members of Congress raise questions, the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general is auditing the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s investigative process.... Read more»
Posted Jan 9, 2013, 11:13 am
Daniel J. Weiss
/Center for American Progress
Despite congressional failure to pass essential legislation to reduce carbon pollution and establish a renewable electricity standard, during its first term the Obama administration successfully adopted policies to protect public health from air pollution, lower oil consumption, and create jobs.... Read more»
Posted Sep 11, 2012, 11:18 pm
Corbin Carson
/Cronkite News Service
Instead of tangling with Arizona over the Clean Air Act, federal regulators should consider Arizona's unique factors, the state's environmental chief says.... Read more»
Posted Sep 5, 2012, 11:55 pm
Sarah Pringle
/Cronkite News Service
The EPA's strict enforcement of air-quality regulations in Arizona is stifling job creation and proving costly to businesses unable to meet the standards, U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake said Wednesday.... Read more»
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Posted Aug 3, 2012, 9:26 am
Samantha Bare
/Cronkite News Service
Arizona is tired of waiting for the federal government to act on the state’s proposed air-quality plan and “very well may” sue the Environmental Protection Agency if action is not taken soon, a state official said Thursday.... Read more»
Posted Jun 7, 2012, 9:07 am
Ryan Clark
/Cronkite News Service
More than 300 Navajo Nation jobs are at stake because of “excessively stringent and expensive” regulations the EPA has proposed for the San Juan power plant, a tribal official testified Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Apr 14, 2012, 12:37 pm
Kate Galbraith
/Texas Tribune
By November, the EPA is supposed to complete a plan that could regulate emissions from dozens of Texas’ industrial plants, with the goal of reducing haze at parks.... Read more»
Posted Jan 11, 2012, 9:35 am
Jessica Testa
/Cronkite News Service
The Governor’s Regulatory Review Council voted Tuesday to repeal the state’s Clean Cars program, a set of tailpipe-emissions standards adopted in 2008, in favor of less-stringent federal regulations.... Read more»