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| 2007-10-30 | |
| Despite years of progress in cleaning up California’s air, millions of Californians continue to breathe the dirtiest air in the nation. In fact, the Golden State is home to eight of the 10 most ozone-polluted counties in the United States. | |
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| 2007-06-29 | |
| Particulate matter from power plants is a serious health threat. Better monitoring of particulate matter emissions from coal-fired power plants in Maryland and proper enforcement of emission standards would help to reduce health-damaging pollution. | |
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| 2007-04-09 | |
| The New Jersey based company, LS Power, is in the permitting stages for building a 1,200 MW coal power plant in southwest Georgia. If this plant were to be built it would have terrible pollution effects in nearby counties and across the state. | |
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| 2006-01-19 | |
| Fine particle pollution continues to pose a grave health threat to Americans in cities and towns across the country. | |
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| 2005-09-08 | |
| Power plants are the largest industrial source of U.S. air emissions of mercury, a potent neurotoxin that poses serious health hazards. | |
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| 2005-06-15 | |
| States have the right to adopt emission standards for cars, trucks and other mobile sources of pollution that are more stringent than federal law. As a result, states have spurred stronger federal policy and filled gaps left in federal protections. | |
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| 2005-04-06 | |
| A loophole in the fine print of the Bush administration’s “Clear Skies†proposal would exempt many of the nation’s power plant units from ever having to reduce their toxic mercury emissions. | |
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| 2005-01-26 | |
| Between 1995 and 2005, more than half of the nation’s dirtiest power plants increased their annual soot-forming emissions, and more than a third increased their annual smog-forming emissions. | |
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| 2004-10-14 | |
| Fish in a large percentage of America’s lakes, rivers, and coastal waters are not safe to eat because of toxic mercury pollution from power plants. | |
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| 2004-09-23 | |
| Smog and fine particle pollution continue to pose a grave health threat to Americans in cities and towns across the country. | |
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| 2004-08-03 | |
| In recent U.S. EPA tests of fish caught from America’s lakes, every fish sample tested was contaminated with mercury, and more than half contained mercury levels that exceed EPA’s “safe†limit for women of childbearing age. | |
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| 2004-06-09 | |
| Fine particle pollution from U.S. power plants cuts short the lives of nearly 24,000 people each year and causes hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks, cardiac episodes, and respiratory problems. | |
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| 2004-04-06 | |
| Electric utilities, oil refineries, and other large polluters pushing to weaken clean air protections gave tens of millions of dollars to federal candidates and spent even more on lobbying to gain access to decision-makers. | |
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| 2004-03-09 | |
| Building new highways will do little to alleviate traffic congestion in the long run and likely will exacerbate already severe air pollution problems in metropolitan areas across the country. | |
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