Posted on 01/07/2023 1:36:40 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of premature deaths a year.
A proposal released Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency would set maximum levels of 9 to 10 micrograms of fine particle pollution per cubic meter of air, down from 12 micrograms set a decade ago under the Obama administration. The standard for particle pollution, more commonly known as soot, was left unchanged by then-President Donald Trump, who overrode a scientific recommendation for a lower standard in his final days in office.
Environmental and public health groups that have been pushing for a stronger standard were disappointed, saying the EPA proposal does not go far enough to limit emissions of what is broadly called “fine particulate matter,” the tiny bits of soot we breathe in unseen from tailpipes, wildfires, factory and power plant smokestacks and other sources.
In a development that could lead to an even lower standard, the EPA said Friday it also would take comments on a range of ideas submitted by a scientific advisory committee, including a proposal that would lower the maximum standard for soot to 8 micrograms. A microgram is one-millionth of a gram. …
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Here in the Big Valley we are often over 50 micrograms per cubic meter.
Outside any standard in the world.
But there is not a damn thing anyone can do about it.
They will be coming for wood stoves.
Worthless “journalist” had to take a swipe at Trump while praising Biden for reducing emissions (which are likely already at the lowest level in modern history).
The US feral government administrative state hates legacy US citizens and wants us all dead.
We should return the favor before it’s too late.
Shame there is no zeal for the Constitution and the 10th Amendment to deal with examples deadly high handed lawlessness like the EPA.
If they were serious about “soot” we would be diverting much more money towards forest management. The wildfires in the West put millions of tons of “soot” and particulate in the air.
It’s frustrating that they are so concerned about my woodstove or the size of my slashpile when tens of thousands of acres of pine trees and brush burn in this region every year.
“unseen from tailpipes, **wildfires**, factory and power plant smokestacks and other sources.”
Wildfires, can’t wait to see what the lunatics in DC come up with for this ‘soot” source.
And they will be coming for your backyard BBQ, wood stove and damn near everything else sooner rather than later.
They are also shooting to control every drop on water inside of the US.
Nixon did a lot of things - this is one **gift** that continues to screw the entire country.
Greenies run the government. Their desires are law.
That is precisely what I thought when I read this.
Which part of the valley do you live in??
I saw that “wildfires,” too. What are they going to do? Make forest and wildfires illegal? Make the forsests and grasslands install baghouses before lighting themselves on fire?
Doesn’t belong in the news forum.
Fireplaces and BBQ are now under attack.
This is nonsense.
Environmental and public health groups started to make billions from the 70’s when their scam hit high speed.
Save this save that send in your money now while we have a chance to save them.
Now lobsters are killing the whales huh Moe.
It’s a tool for control. They will be focused soon on backyard campfires and puddles in your yard.
Seriously.
The shark is jumped, it is.
IOW quit burning stuff. No more fireplaces
“ If they were serious about “soot”, they would ban volcanoes. Those things produce more “soot” than every stove, exhaust pipe or industrial furnace on earth!
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