Sentences with phrase «smog pollution»

The EPA failed to meet a Sunday deadline to designate which areas in the U.S. were being plagued by smog pollution, leading AG Eric Schneiderman and 13 other attorneys general from various states and the District of Columbia to start legal proceedings.

Erie County's air earned a good grade for its low amount of soot pollution but received a barely passing mark for smog pollution in the American Lung Association's annual air quality report.

Erie County was assigned a «D» grade for smog pollution in the most recent State of the Air report issued by the American Lung Association.

He sued to stop a rule to reduce smog pollution that crossed state lines.

New York has filed a complaint pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act to curb ground - level smog pollution that blows into New York.

The Sierra Club's Washington representative on smog pollution, Terry McGuire, believes: «The Administration is emboldened to do that.»

«Yet the Trump EPA continues to ignore its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act to reduce interstate smog pollution.

Schneiderman said data shows 1 - in - 3 residents of New York is «breathing dangerous levels of smog pollution» and the EPA's lack of action threatens citizens» health and safety.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

«The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation,» Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal article about smog pollution.

[It teaches] eco-systems and the benefit of removing say, for example, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and also just smog pollution.»

Each year, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) gives environmental scores to automakers based on average per - mile smog pollution and global warming emissions of the entire fleet of vehicles sold.

Photo credit: US Navy TIME Magazine wonders... Obama's decision to pull the plug on stricter smog pollution standards has the environmental community reeling.

WASHINGTON (May 13, 2015)-- One - in - three Americans lives in the «sneeziest and wheeziest» cities and regions where they are exposed to both ragweed pollen and ozone smog pollution that can worsen respiratory allergies and asthma, a new Natural Resources Defense Council report shows.

Days before Pruitt's CPAC speech, the EPA rejected a petition from Connecticut to cut smog pollution from a coal - fired power plant in Pennsylvania that's been one of the largest sources of East Coast smog.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to meet a Sunday deadline to designate which areas in the United States were being plagued by smog pollution.

«Millions of New Yorkers breathe unhealthy air due to smog pollution, much of which blows into New York from upwind states,» Schneiderman said.

«Carbon pollution... causes more severe heat waves and smog pollution, which trigger more asthma attacks and other serious respiratory illnesses.

In the most striking new example, CMD revealed that Scott Pruitt's staff accepted draft letters from oil refinery lobbyists who wanted government help to attack renewable fuels and limits to smog pollution:

Stopping 100 new coal plants has also kept thousands of tons of asthma - causing soot and smog pollution, as well as toxins like mercury, out of our air and water.

Number of Americans threatened by smog pollution and ragweed pollen, which will only get worse with climate change.