EPA fails to implement its own strengthened air quality standard and missed deadline for identifying areas with soot pollution levels higher than the new acceptable limit
Seventeen health, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for soot. The coalition also filed a motion for summary judgment asking the court to put the agency on a court-ordered deadline to carry out its overdue responsibility.
Seventeen health, community and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to implement the strengthened 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for particulate matter air pollution, commonly known as soot.
Nearly 20 health, community, and environmental groups around the country officially put the EPA on notice of their intent to pursue legal action unless the EPA issues the overdue designations required under the 2024 National Ambient Air Quality Standard limit for PM2.5, also known as soot.
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.
Comments of Appalachian Mountain Club, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Citizens For Pennsylvania’s Future, Clean Air Council, Clean Air Task Force, Clean Air Now, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Group Against Smog & Pollution, National Parks Conservation Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Southern Environmental Law Center, Union Of Concerned Scientists on the Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards For Particulate Matter
Tired of breathing dirty air during your daily commute? Just turn on your car vent’s recirculation button, ‘advises researchers from the University of Southern California.
More than 100 physicians, tribal leaders, labor leaders, clergy, nurses, parents to meet with Congress on carbon pollution, smog, ash, other clean air priorities
