Showing posts with label Clean Air Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clean Air Act. Show all posts

Friday, March 28, 2025

US could see return of acid rain due to Trump’s rollbacks, says scientist who discovered it | Pollution | The Guardian

A blitzkrieg launched by Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on clean air and water regulations could revert the US to a time when cities were routinely shrouded in smog and even help usher back acid rain, according to Gene Likens, whose experiments helped identify acidic rainwater in the 1960s…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/27/acid-rain-trump-epa 



Saturday, April 1, 2023

Biden DOJ Sues Norfolk Southern for 'Unlawfully Polluting the Nation's Waterways'

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the company under the Clean Air Act, accusing it of "unlawfully polluting the nation's waterways" and calling on Norfolk Southern "to ensure it pays the full cost of the environmental cleanup."…



Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by U.S. Pollution

THE GLOBAL RESPONSE to the “ozone hole,” as it came to be known in the 1970s, has long been held up as a model for environmental problem-solving — and the hope that we might yet be able to fix the climate crisis. After scientists realized that chemicals used for cooling and in aerosol sprays were causing the Earth’s protective ozone layer to thin, threatening to cause vast increases in cancers and other diseases, countries around the world came together to fix it. Even the companies that made and sold the chemical culprits — chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs — participated in the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty that began phasing them out in 1989. Since then, the ozone layer has partially recovered. ....
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/18/ozone-layer-epa-united-states-pollution/

Friday, February 22, 2019








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