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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In 2006, the country's Ministry for Environmental Protection launched a nationwide soil-pollution survey, which was to have been concluded in 2010.
Back on the mainland, experts tell Global Times that a 2% decrease target in air pollution set by Beijing's environmental protection bureau is too low.
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.
The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
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.
Data from the US Environmental Protection Agency were used to work out levels of pollution for addresses in California.
The Environmental Protection Agency has noted that nanotech may provide revolutionary advances in pollution prevention, detection and waste treatment and remediation.
The Environmental Protection Agency's announcement contains the simple assertion that greenhouse gas pollution is a serious problem now and for future generations.
The data used came from a daily monitoring of pollution levels recorded from 2007 through 2009, as collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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 used its authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a source of pollution and set higher standards for power plants.
For pollution levels, we used information from the American Lung Association's "State of the Air: 2007" report, which ranked the most polluted metropolitan areas by year-round particle pollution based on data submitted by states to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 2003-05.
The move was forced by a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency, after environmental groups including the Sierra Club brought suit against TVA for air pollution.
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In the Environmental Protection Agency this clearly lies in your area of responsibility, yet if it is about pollution created by airplanes, the Department of Transportation shares oversight.
The Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks hazardous-waste sites as less harmful to human health than radon, outdoor particulate pollution or working exposure to pesticides.
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