Court Strikes Down Toxic Loophole for Cement Plant Pollution: Ruling means less mercury and other toxic air pollution will be emitted

Ruling means less mercury and other toxic air pollution will be emitted

Cement plants should start cleaning up now

EPA allows more mercury and soot to poison communities

Dangerous plot twist in clean air success story

Important air protection will save between 900-2,500 lives

As part of the Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities series, NPR investigated the toxic air pollution being pumped out of the Ash Grove cement plant in Chanute, Kansas, a town of roughly 9,000 people. The Ash Grove facility, which emits some 500 pounds of mercury a year when operating full blast, is not violating…

Somewhere along the road from their home districts to their offices in Washington, D.C., our Congressional representatives got their wires crossed. The American public sent them forth with a mandate to run the country, but instead, they’re ruining it. Toward the end of September, the House passed the first piece of House Majority Leader Eric…

H.R. 2681 promotes waste-burning, lets some of the dirtiest polluters escape clean air laws

My name is Alex Allred. I live in a town that is surrounded by three cement plants. Two of our elementary schools were declared among the most toxic in the nation. Today, the House of Representatives is debating a bill—H.R.

Quick! Somebody tell Tipper Gore that “clean air” and “public health” are now considered dirty words. Well, at least in the U.S. House of Representatives. If the House had a swear jar, I’d bet such utterances would be as punishable as your garden variety expletives. Here’s why: The House is voting this week on two…