The debate over air pollution and, more specifically, the regulation of air pollution, raged on this week as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watered down its cross-state pollution rule and House Republicans moved to delay new rules on toxic air pollution from cement plants, solid waste incinerators, and industrial boilers.

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The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices, " and the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of gas and diesel, he said.

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Soil contamination has long been an issue in China, were rapid industrialization and lax enforcement of environmental-protection laws have resulted in the pollution of large swathes of arable land with a variety of heavy metals.

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The Environmental Protection Agency used its authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a source of pollution and set higher standards for power plants.

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Because the President and his Environmental Protection Agency has had the temerity to impose stricter air pollution requirements on fracking operations that were spewing dangerous methane gas into the air.

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The Environmental Protection Agency has noted that nanotech may provide revolutionary advances in pollution prevention, detection and waste treatment and remediation.

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The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement contains the simple assertion that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.

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