US tightens controls on deadly soot pollution
The regulation on fine particle pollution could yield up to $46 billion in net health benefits in 2032.
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The regulation on fine particle pollution could yield up to $46 billion in net health benefits in 2032.
New limits on lung-damaging soot proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration would effectively require cleaner factories, power plants and vehicles in Chicago and several other urban industrial centers across the Midwest. At the urging of his independent scientific advisers, Michael Regan, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is pushing to lower the annual standard ...
The U.S. EPA is tightening national standards for fine particulate matter — a health threat that has been linked to lung and heart disease.
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a sweeping regulatory action, curbing particulate matter emissions from industry sources such as manufacturing and energy.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) is calling on President Biden to reconsider the administration’s proposed soot pollution standards. In response to a request for comment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Beshear took issue with the proposal’s use of a range of standards rather than a single standard. The proposed rule would set the pollution…