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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Stanislaus county
Stanislaus county
When will the EPA demand all rockets to space STOP ?
Ok I am in kern.
You will have to register all your molecules, get a serial number for each one, and carry a document with that information, to present when asked.
You have the worst air in the nation, by far.
Thank you Nixon, you pinko moron!
“..and wildfires...”
About time they started fining the Interior Department and its subordinate bureaus and agencies for their incompetence.
The idiotic fight again natural resources continues.
Been fighting this crap in the interior of Alaska for a long, long time.
Salmon pink, at that.
Compared to the air in la/oc I have no problem, just smell the manure that is spread on the fields is all
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