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Environmental groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency to force it to update limits on soot, sulfur and nitrogen air pollution. The standards must be reviewed and updated every five years to account for the latest science on the risks and threats to human health and the environment. But the agency last updated any of the standards for the three pollutants back in 2013.

High ozone levels triggered more than double the number of air quality health advisories this year compared to last year in Colorado Springs, even though the state did not see

High ozone levels triggered more than double the number of air quality health advisories this year compared to last year in Colorado Springs, even though the state did not see

Colorado oil and gas producers are facing the prospect of tougher smog regulations as EPA completes its latest about-face on a series of contested Trump administration

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Pennsylvania’s plan to clean up smog from eight industrial polluters, including a fracked gas facility. Portions of Pennsylvania currently violate standards for ozone pollution, also known as smog, at levels that can trigger ecological harm and human health problems like asthma attacks and even death. The EPA-approved plan to reduce that pollution at these facilities is fla...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice today of its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for approving Pennsylvania’s inadequate plan to clean up smog from the methane gas industry. The methane gas is mainly extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Pennsylvania’s plan to control the smog caused by fracking is based on outdated technology and guidance from 1983. In recent decades vastly improved methods have been developed for capturing and limiting the dang...

Two groups plan to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for delaying action to reduce smog in some of the most polluted metro areas in the country including northwest Indiana near Chicago. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health gave notice of their suit to the EPA last week.

Three public health and conservation groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to ensure that parts of Maryland and Michigan have effective plans for cleaning up sulfur dioxide air pollution. Areas affected by the EPA’s failures include Anne Arundel County and Baltimore County in Maryland, as well as parts of Metro Detroit in Michigan. These areas, which are home to nearly 1.3 million people, have sulfur dioxide pollution at levels high enough to trigger ecological ha...

For Immediate Release, May 6, 2021 Contact: Stephanie Feldstein, (734) 395-0770, sfeldstein@biologicaldiversity.org Robert Ukeiley, (720) 496-8568, rukeiley@biologicaldiversity.org UN Report: Methane Cuts Are Critical to Confronting Climate Emergency Global Study Finds Methane Reductions More Vital Than Previously Thought WASHINGTON— Slashing emissions from methane, including from the fossil fuel industry, is far more critical than previously thought to avoid the wors...

Polis threatens to veto bill seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Durango, Colorado Currently Fri 0% chance of precipitation 1% chance of precipitation 36% chance of precipitation 15% chance of precipitation 3% chance of precipitation ‘We’re not willing to give dictatorial authority over our economy to one unelected board’ Gov. Jared Polis before signing a bill in his office last week. Jesse Paul/The Colorado Sun Polis threatens to veto...