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NRDC Sues Trump Administration Over Rollback of Methane Rule for Public Lands

September 28, 2018 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SAN FRANCISCO—The Natural Resources Defense Council and coalition of nearly 20 conservation and tribal citizen groups today sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management over its rollback of commonsense protections that stop the unnecessary leaking of climate change-fueling and health-harming…

California Legislature Approves Bill Reducing Super-polluting HFCs in Major Cooling Systems

August 30, 2018 Press ReleaseCalifornia

Southeast Side Neighbors and Activists Respond to Chicago City Council Manganese Ordinance

March 28, 2018 Press ReleaseChicago

City Council Action Does Not Fix Exposure to Neurotoxin: Needed First Step, More Needs To Be Done

New EPA Guidelines Will Worsen Air Pollution Across the U.S.

March 13, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today issued a memorandum that will allow industrial polluters to significantly increase air pollution that threatens public health nationwide.

EPA to Allow Greatest Rise of Hazardous Air Pollutants in U.S. History

January 25, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON - The Environmental Protection Agency today announced it will allow hundreds of U.S. industrial facilities to dramatically increase their emissions of the most toxic air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act.

Trump’s EPA Stalls on Policing Southeast Side Polluters, Residents Urge Mayor Emanuel to Step Up

December 19, 2017 Press ReleaseChicago

Senate Approves Possibly “Worst Pick Ever” for EPA Air Office

November 9, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted largely on party lines today confirming Bill Wehrum to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation.

Pruitt Breaking the Law by not Telling the American People About Unsafe Smog Pollution

October 3, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has missed the statutory deadline to report to the American people which U.S. counties exceed the national health standard for ground-level ozone, or smog.

Court Strikes Down Sensible Limits of Super-Pollutant HFCs

August 8, 2017 Press Release

NRDC Sues to Block Trump Administration’s Methane Pollution Rollback

June 5, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration violated the Clean Air Act in suspending critical protections against methane leaks and other dangerous air pollution from the oil and gas industry last week, according to a lawsuit filed today by the Natural Resources…

Ahmedabad Unveils Groundbreaking Protections Against Deadly Air Pollution

May 12, 2017 Press ReleaseIndia

Indian government officials and partners today unveiled the first-of-its-kind comprehensive health-based plan to protect citizens from deadly air pollution, which is being established in Ahmedabad, one of the most polluted cities in South Asia.

New Report: U.S. Power Sector Continues Significant Reductions of Air Pollutant Emissions

July 13, 2016 Press Release

BOSTON, MA – The nation’s largest electric producers continue to substantially reduce emissions of key air pollutants, the latest comprehensive analysis of U.S. power plant emissions shows.

118 Conservation, Environmental and Health Groups Blast Ozone Bill for Endangering Public Health

June 7, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON – More than 100 conservation, environmental and health groups representing millions of Americans today strongly criticized legislation before the House this week that would delay safer federal clean air standards, putting the American public’s health at significant risk from…

NRDC Statement on Federal Standard for Methane Pollution on Public Lands

January 22, 2016 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 22, 2016) – The federal Bureau of Land Management today released a standard to address methane pollution from oil and gas industry operations on public lands.

New Legislative Package Announced to Protect Californians from Air Pollution, Health Impacts of Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Leak

January 11, 2016 Press ReleaseCalifornia

NORTHRIDGE (January 11, 2016) – Senators Kevin de León and Fran Pavley announced a package of new legislation that builds on Gov. Brown’s state of emergency declaration to ensure protections for Californians impacted by the natural gas leak in Porter…

New Report: U.S. Power Sector Continues to Reduce Air Pollution Emissions in Advance of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

July 14, 2015 Press Release

BOSTON, MA – The most comprehensive analysis to date on U.S. power plant air pollution emissions shows that most of the nation’s largest electric utilities have seen significant reductions in global warming pollution in recent years. The report’s release comes…

NRDC Praises New Ozone Health Proposals, Urges Safest Standards to Protect the Public

November 26, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (November 26, 2014)—The Environmental Protection Agency today moved to improve public health protections against smog, declaring as unsafe the pollution standards that have been in place since 2008. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said she would recommend a reduction in…

Chicago’s Petcoke Problem: No Happy 4th for Southeast Siders

July 3, 2014 Press Release

CHICAGO (July 3, 2014) – As Independence Day approaches, residents on the Southeast Side of Chicago continue to battle issues associated with the massive piles of petcoke heaped on the edge of the Calumet River, in close proximity to homes…

Supreme Court Reaffirms EPA Authority to Curb Power Plant Carbon Pollution

June 23, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 23, 2014) — Building on two prior decisions affirming the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to set carbon pollution standards like those recently proposed for power plants, the Supreme Court today upheld the core of EPA’s associated permitting requirements…

New Report Shows Decline in Carbon Dioxide and Other Pollutants from U.S. Power Plants, but State and Power Company Emissions Vary Widely

May 28, 2014 Press Release

BOSTON (May 28, 2014) A new report on U.S. power plant emissions from the country’s top 100 electric power producers shows a downward trend in nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxides (SO2), mercury and carbon dioxide (CO2) since 2000, with CO2…