Community, health, and environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s exemptions that allow coke ovens to keep spewing harmful pollutants.
106 groups oppose EPA abandoning its defense of national health-protective pollution standards for fine particulate matter, also known as PM2.5 or soot.
In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted a rule that would initiate a series of actions to reduce exposure to harmful levels of fine particulate matter. This paper assesses where EPA stands in the process of implementing that rule and shines a light on why it is so important to faithfully implement it, as Congress mandated EPA to do under the Clean Air Act.