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Not long after receiving its first passing grade for ozone pollution from the American Lung Association, Fulton County is one of five Georgia counties that need to reduce soot in the air because the Environmental Protection Agency finalized stronger standards.
The EPA tightens regulations on fine particle pollution, a deadly form of air pollution that disproportionately affects Black Americans.
The U.S. Environmental Protection has toughened standards for soot pollution in a move that aims to crack down on industry, clean up the air and increase public health.
New limits on lung-damaging soot proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration would effectively require cleaner factories, power plants and vehicles in several urban industrial centers across the Midwest.
The tighter air pollution standard had been long sought by health and environmental justice groups, but has faced criticism from manufacturing and construction industry associations.