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The US Supreme Court is Operating Like a Rogue EPA

Union of Concerned Scientists

The plan cuts power plant and industrial ozone pollution that wafts from central parts of the nation into eastern states. According to the American Lung Association, nearly 120 million people in the nation—one of every three—lives with unhealthy levels of particle and ozone pollution. A 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Chevron v.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

I distinctly remember the rotten egg smell of sulfur dioxide hanging over the Flats whenever we went downtown. It is mainly methane, which is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat for the first 20 years after it is released. That makes the fertilizer industry a double threat to the climate.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. EPA – Public Meetings of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Ozone Panel (April 29). Long Term Ecological Research Network to hold panel discussion about community engagement. Federal Register opportunities.

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