Decision will cost residents and hold Indianapolis back

Earthjustice-sponsored announcements will run in the state of Ohio for one week

In March 2012, Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to reduce toxic emissions from industrial power plants or boilers. As a result, thousands of children will be protected from hospital visits, severe asthma attacks and even death.

Americans remain protected from nation’s second worst toxic polluters

National map provides locations of unregulated pollution sources

Longstanding and often ignored, rider on boilers would result in up to 8,100 premature deaths annually

Updated standards will save 8,100 lives

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. 2250 promotes waste-burning, lets thousands of polluters escape clean air laws

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…

Bills excuse cement plants, industrial boilers, and waste-burning plants from pollution safeguards

Bill permits uncontrolled industrial waste burning and will lead to thousands of premature, preventable deaths

With new timeline for boiler health protections, EPA endangers lives and flouts court’s authority

Imagine two tiny figures perched on a politician’s shoulders—one scientific, the other political. The scientist whispers in the politician’s ear: “You can save 6,500 lives every year with these health protections!” The tiny politician counters, “You can save those lives, but who will save you from the powerful industry lobbyists outside your door?” So with…

Effort to undo industrial boiler health standard is bad for the American public

6,500 lives would be lost from breathing in dangerous air

Health protections will modestly reduce dangerous emissions

The EPA, today issued its final standard to protect Americans from the toxic air pollution emitted by industrial facilities like chemical plants, refineries and paper mills