The backpack is designed to measure ambient toxics spewed by vehicles, pesticides, and chemicals from common household products.

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The program, called the Toxics Release Inventory, was created as part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act.

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For example, nearly 60 percent of all coal-fired boilers that submitted data to EPA are currently achieving the Utility Toxics Rule's proposed mercury standards.

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The concern does not stop with mothers breathing in toxics.

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This will allow truckers to reduce emissions significantly (diesel emissions include nitrous oxides, particulate matter, and other air toxics and they are a major source of pollution in some areas).

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Many of the uncontrolled units, which are most likely to retire, are smaller, inefficient units and companies are already making retirement decisions independent of the Utility Toxics Rule due to fundamental economics.

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At our meeting, Chair Sutley discussed the importance of EPA's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, issued last week, that provide both economic and environmental benefits while protecting public health and the Great Lakes.

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While Environmental Protection Agency clean air regulations such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) can explain some of the future expected displacement of coal by natural gas, shale gas economics is a significant reason for the displacement.

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The company also said Monday that while the cuts required are more than the initial agreement, it was planning to do them to meet a new EPA regulation aimed at reducing mercury and other air toxics from the nation's power plants.

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