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EPA Clean Air Panel Chair Dismisses His Oil Industry Ties, Slams Harvard Study on Air Pollution and COVID Risks

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 11 mins The head of a federal committee tasked with advising the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) on air quality science recently disparaged a new Harvard study examining the link between air pollution and coronavirus fatalities across the country. Environmental Protection Agency

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Advocates Call on EPA to Expand Air Pollution Monitoring of Refineries After 10 Found Emitting High Benzene Levels

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins Available for the first time, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) air monitoring data from over 100 U.S. oil refineries shows that 10 facilities have exceeded federal limits for cancer-causing benzene along their borders. Russel Honoré oil refineries Philadelphia Energy Solutions benzene air pollution clean air act

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Climate Deniers Argue Carbon Pollution Is Beneficial, Again Take Aim at EPA's Endangerment Finding

DeSmogBlog

Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) to reverse its own scientific finding that underpins federal climate rules. Tags: social cost of carbon competitive enterprise institute endangerment finding patrick michaels ross mckitrick Kevin Dayaratna

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UN Human Rights Experts Condemn Expanding Petrochemical Industry in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as 'Environmental Racism'

DeSmogBlog

Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “environmental racism” that “must end.”. Tags: cancer alley Human Rights environmental racism Formosa petrochemical development

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Will We Ever Stop Overestimating the Cost of Complying with Environmental Regulations?

Energy and Cleantech Council

It turned out that compliance costs were much less than originally estimated by EPA – let alone by industry. billion price tag originally put on the MATS rule lived on, even after it was clear that that number was way off. And that’s not just industry’s estimates; EPA repeatedly overestimates the cost to comply with its rules.

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EPA might water down its cleanup standards for Seattle’s only river

Grist

In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, released a comprehensive cleanup plan for the waterway. However, a series of proposed changes to the site’s cleanup plan, put forward by the EPA over the past several months, has thrown a wrench in the process. Since then, cleanup efforts have proceeded slowly but steadily.

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The Maintenance Needs Of Biodiesel

The Environmental Blog

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. According to the research conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , biodiesel emits 11 percent less carbon monoxide and 10 percent less particulate matter than diesel. billion gallons in 2013.