WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether to block a Biden administration policy aimed at reducing air pollution that crosses from one state to another and creates harmful smog. The court is hearing four related cases involving challenges to the policy brought by three Republican-led states — Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia […]
Italy’s northern Lombardy region has imposed severe anti-smog measures across Milan and eight surrounding provinces to combat a particularly bad period of air pollution. The measures bar heavy motor vehicles from operating during the day and impose limits on heating and industrial agricultural activities in the nine provinces. A lack of rain and wind has […]
MILAN, Italy (AP) — Italy’s northern Lombardy region imposed severe antismog measures across Milan and eight surrounding provinces Tuesday to combat a particularly bad period of air pollution. The measures bar heavy motor vehicles from operating during the day and impose limits on heating and industrial agricultural activities in the nine provinces. A lack of […]
The operators of one of North Carolina’s largest landfills have for decades been shipping forever chemical-laden sludge to a majority Black community in Sampson County, a community group has alleged in a formal notice of intent to sue. The Environmental Justice Community Action Network alleges that Sampson County Landfill operator GFL Enterprises and its predecessors […]
New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is an absolute success. Eleven billion single-use plastic bags were avoided as of the two-year anniversary of the plastic bag ban on May 4, 2024. In less than a year from the law’s implementation, ghost plastic bags fell off of the top 10 list of most common litter items […]
The number of days that Georgia can now perform “prescribed burning” is shrinking as a result of climate change, adding to the already delicate balance of the fire prevention action. While burning across private and public lands helps ecosystem health and reduces the risk of wildfires, it also pollutes the smoke that contains particulate matter […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is setting tougher standards for deadly soot pollution, saying that reducing fine particle matter from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year. Environmental and public health groups hailed the new Environmental Protection Agency rule finalized Wednesday as a major step in improving […]
The U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency has filed a new lawsuit against Republic Steel that claims the Lorain and Canton plants violated the Clean Water Act numerous times between May 2017 and March 2023. The civil complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Cleveland could cost the company millions of […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently released Environmental Protection Agency assessment. It’s a difficult problem that’s concentrated in agricultural regions that drain into the Mississippi […]
The lead sponsor of a bill to loosen environmental regulations on Louisville industrial companies regulated by air pollution control boards came under scrutiny from a fellow Kentucky lawmaker Thursday. House Bill 136 from Rep. Jared Bauman, R-Louisville, would relax regulations of Kentucky chemical and industrial companies in Jefferson County by, for instance, making it “voluntary” […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Climate-altering pollution from greenhouse gases declined by nearly 2% in the United States in 2023, even as the economy expanded at a faster clip, a new report finds. The decline, while “a step in the right direction,” is far below the rate needed to meet President Joe Biden‘s pledge to cut U.S. […]
A recent study from Washington’s Department of Ecology identified a handful of areas where air pollution could be shortening the lifespan of some residents. The report identified 16 areas in the state as “overburdened,” where residents face a higher rate of death from air pollution compared to the state average. Those areas include Everett, South […]