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… fossil fuels from heavy-duty vehicles and power plants are expected later this spring.  EPA on Wednesday (March 20) also finalized the strongest-ever limits on tailpipe emissions from …

… of pollution, with communities of color and Western states most exposed to unhealthy air. The EPA estimates that the new standard by 2032 will prevent annually as many as 4,500 premature … spent on the rule, totaling $46 billion in net health benefits. The rule will also modify EPA's PM 2.5 monitoring to ensure greater data collection from communities overburdened by air … live more productive and active lives, improving our ability to grow and develop as a nation," EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.  Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and …

… on a permissible construction of the statute," the court held in 1984 . The court added: "The EPA's interpretation of the statute here represents a reasonable accommodation of manifestly …

… Protection Agency, the conservative court ruled against delegated authority, nullifying the EPA's ability to regulate gas emissions and help curb climate change. Ironically, these …

… for Catholics, and others, in Tucson to know that the U.S. bishops' conference supported the EPA proposal to put stricter limits on carbon pollution from power plants. For places with …

… additional 25,303 comments from individual pro-life Christians were submitted calling on the EPA to strengthen safeguards on pollution from light- and medium-duty passenger vehicles, and a further 21,676 comments to the EPA support stronger standards on heavy-duty vehicle emissions. Further recent policy wins with …

… that significantly reduced which watersheds are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. EPA officials said the move was a result of a decision in May by the U.S. Supreme Court, which … and as much as 63% of wetland acreage, according to a report by The Washington Post citing an EPA official. The river was selected as the symbol of this year's Season of Creation , an …

… Where was he when migrant children were abducted with no plans for reunification, when the EPA was gutted, when the Muslim travel ban was instituted, when Nazis marched in Charlottesville, …

… rabbis and religious from 44 states and Puerto Rico wrote in a letter delivered Aug. 8 to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We have a moral obligation to protect our climate," they said, with 200-plus Catholic women religious among the signatories. In May, EPA proposed standards for carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act for new and existing power … from the combustion of fossil fuels. The proposed standards seek to curb that output, with the EPA estimating through 2042 they will cumulatively slash up to 617 million metric tons of carbon …

… comments on postcards to be sent to the United States Environmental Protections Agency, or EPA, in support of the proposed changes. Panel host IHM Sr. Barbara Stanbridge said, "We want to encourage the EPA to truly be an environmental protection agency … not [one] protecting the fossil fuel … teaching to the public sphere. In May, while Canada was fighting unseasonable wildfires, the EPA proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-fired power …

… equaling about 167,000 pounds of coal that would have been burned each year, according to the EPA's greenhouse emission calculator. (The calculator uses national averages.) With the …

… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …

… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …

… PFAS are linked to cancer, suppressed immune responses and other health concerns. The new EPA rule requires public water system monitoring to strictly limit six PFAS chemicals, instead of the previously unenforceable guidance of just two. The EPA's action signals heightened concerns about drinking water quality and safety. A Feb. 16 TIME … closed the sixth of seven drinking water wells in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles. EPA statistics reflect unequal environmental impacts for communities with racial or ethnic …

… annually. Attendees at "Detroit's Dirty Air" were invited to submit public comments to the EPA and urge it to save lives by setting soot pollution standards to the amount "recommended by the EPA's own scientific advisory." Jesuit Fr. Lorn Snow, Gesu pastor and event panelist, said, "I … we have a care for ... our environment." Thanedar agreed with the panelists that the current EPA standards on soot pollution are not acceptable. He urged consideration of the combined …

… this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution," EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a March 14 statement. "That's why President Biden … launched a whole-of-government approach to aggressively confront these harmful chemicals, and EPA is leading the way forward," Regan said. "EPA's proposal to establish a national standard for PFAS in drinking water is informed by the …

… more lives, say faith groups, public health officials and environmental justice advocates. The EPA issued a proposal Jan. 6 to strengthen existing limits on airborne fine particulate matter — … 9 and 10 micrograms per cubic meter. The proposed rules were the first in a decade from the EPA after the Trump administration in 2020 opted to keep in place the 2012 standards. Soot, or PM … overall has decreased nearly 80% since the Clean Air Act of 1970 was passed, according to the EPA . The EPA estimated that lowering the maximum soot concentration to 9 micrograms per cubic …

… than you'd think. Consider the recent  Supreme Court decision  in West Virginia v. EPA at the end of June. The court's conservative majority ruled that the EPA can't implement sweeping regulations on carbon dioxide without the explicit approval of … was required to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA, under President George W. Bush, refused to do so, saying that the Clean Air Act didn't give …

… matter sensors on the church roofs, manufactured by  QuantAQ , are a low-cost version of the EPA's sensors, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even the monitors MCU is using cost …

… as hazardous substances and to potentially list the chemicals as toxic pollutants. In August, EPA proposed a rule to label two PFAS as hazardous substances. The House bill drew support from …