Amid Pandemic, EPA Proposal Distorts the Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution
The move would rig the cost-benefit analysis of future clean air safeguards—and hit low-income communities and communities of color the hardest. ...
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Trump Takes Moment of National Crisis to Give Polluters an Unprecedented Pass
Amid widespread racist violence and a deadly pandemic, the president has chosen to sidestep bedrock environmental laws that protect the environment and public h...
Trump Tells Agencies to Slash Environmental and Health Protections
The executive order is an opportunistic attempt to push a deregulatory agenda during a public health crisis....
NRDC Sues After EPA Gives Industry a Pass on Leaks of HFCs, a Potent Climate Pollutant
Easily preventable hydrofluorocarbon leaks add up to the same amount of carbon pollution from more than half a million cars each year. ...
Protections that Curb Toxic Coal Plant Pollution Under Attack
The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards save more than 10,000 lives and avoid as many as 130,000 asthma attacks each year. Keeping them strong is more important no...
NRDC and Partners Sue After EPA Gives Pass to Polluters During Pandemic
The agency’s non-enforcement policy risks pollution spikes in already overburdened communities—making COVID-19 that much more dangerous. ...