Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made fr...

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

#Airpollution

Environmental/public health groups sue to force #EPA to make a key set of compliance decisions tied to a soot standard strengthened in 2024 under then-President Joe Biden:

#AirPollution

#EPA just posted this final rule setting new hazardous air pollutant standards for some chemical plants. Unlike the draft version, developed during the Biden administration, it will not directly address carcinogenic ethylene oxide emissions: www.epa.gov/system/files...

#EPA #Airpollution

EPA warns communities facing cancerous air pollution One EPA employee has been traveling the country to warn Americans about the risks of ethylene oxide pollution where they live.

11) If there’s one thing I’ve learned in covering environmental issues over the years, it’s that people often just want government officials to level with them. This story looks at one unusual EPA initiative that sought to do that: eenews.net/articles/epa....

#EPA #ethyleneoxide #EtO

Federal cash sustains dream of freeway through Ala. woods PINSON, Ala. -- On planners' maps, the Northern Beltline is a 52-mile, six-lane interstate that completes a loop around Birmingham, Ala. More than a half-century

10) I think of this as one of the first decent stories I wrote for @eenews.bsky.social. This Alabama highway project, conceived in the 1960s, is still inching ahead, courtesy of federal taxpayers and the congressional pork barrel: eenews.net/articles/fed....

#NorthernBeltline #Alabama #Birmingham

Emails reveal industry's revolving door at air office Calendars and emails obtained by E&E News through the Freedom of Information Act reveal a pattern among Trump administration appointees in EPA's air office

9) In his successful 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously promised to “drain the swamp.” Here, the great @kevinbogardus.bsky.social and I explored how that pledge was playing out in practice in EPA’s air office: eenews.net/articles/ema....

#EPA #AirPollution

EPA has no record of another task force Pruitt touted EPA can't find written evidence of a task force designed to overhaul the agency's New Source Review permitting program that former Administrator Scott

8) Back during the first Trump administration, then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt had a distinctive penchant for trumpeting initiatives that later didn't seem to add up to much. Here’s one example, unearthed via a FOIA request: eenews.net/articles/epa....

#EPA #FOIA #Accountability

EPA tightened refinery regs. Why did emissions rise? An E&E News review found that although toxic air releases at many plants have dropped, others have spiked.

7) This piece is kind of in the weeds, but I like it b/c it shows that the projected benefits of major EPA regulatory initiatives don't necessarily shake out evenly: eenews.net/articles/epa....

#EPA #Refineries #AirPollution

Shuster follows route first steered by his dad While credited with restoring a more bipartisan style to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and helping to pass a major water projects

6) Then-Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) was fun to profile, particularly in the context of his proudly acknowledged relationship to his famous father: eenews.net/articles/shu....

#Shuster #Congress

‘What we did mattered’: EPA air office veteran reflects on his career Chet Wayland was behind development of the Air Quality Index, a popular and color-coded ranking tool and modeling key to pollution reduction programs.

5) If you’ve ever relied on EPA’s popular Air Quality Index, this story serves as a reminder that government employees, not the private sector, made it happen:
eenews.net/articles/wha....

#EPA #AirPollution

Air pollution spikes as Trump doubles down on coal power EPA data shows pollution bumps that are among the largest in decades, just as the agency rolls back rules cracking down on pollution from coal-fired power

4) A recent story on how coal-fired power plant pollution shot up last year, notwithstanding EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s pledge to to ensure clean air for all Americans:
eenews.net/articles/air....

#EPA #AirPollution

Records show industry sway on toxic emissions rollback In a glimpse at the Trump administration’s tilt toward polluting industries, EPA embraced the aid of manufacturers in easing a new rule.

3) When the Trump administration last summer resorted to a procedural shortcut to stave off tighter regulations on coke manufacturers, the public was shut out. Industry, however, was plugged in:
www.eenews.net/articles/rec....

#EPA #AirPollution

Fire's in their genes, smoke's in the air and ERs are busy FLINT HILLS, Kan. — Combustion has ancient roots here, where it's essential to preserving the United States' last major expanse of tallgrass prairie and,

2) Fire has always been part of grasslands ecosystems, but increasingly intensive burning in eastern Kansas posed questions about whether agribusiness needs were taking priority over human health:
www.eenews.net/articles/fir....

1) [Thread] In personal news, I just wrapped up a 12-year stint with @eenews.bsky.social. Next steps TBD, but I'll always be grateful for the chance to have covered Clean Air Act issues in the company of terrific colleagues. Here - in no particular order - are 10 favorite stories:

Regulators rely on fossil fuel industry data. How often is it wrong? From Colorado to Texas, government officials are grappling with concerns about unreliable reports from oil and gas companies.

Regulators Rely On #FossilFuel Industry #Data. How Often Is It Wrong?

Shelb Webb reports for @eenews.bsky.social

#news #environment

EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list

@sejorg.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/reg...

Trump EPA took eleventh-hour look at endangerment finding With just days remaining for the Trump administration, EPA reviewed the agency's foundational ruling underpinning its climate change rules. But in a

Here are my stories about how the last Trump EPA didn't end but *saved* the endangerment finding

I cite lots of #FOIA docs

www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

www.eenews.net/articles/ins...

Of course, many of these people are now serving in this Trump admin — which just axed the finding

#FOIA4eva

E&E News: Trump admin reapproves cancer-tied pesticide targeted by MAHA EPA will allow continued use of dicamba, which some activists in the "Make America Healthy Again" movement wants banned.

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

#dicamba

Final EPA rule grants coal ash dumps extra time to install ground monitoring EPA said its initial proposal for 15 extra months wasn't enough and instead is giving companies 33 additional months beyond deadlines set by the Biden

www.eenews.net/articles/fin...

Here’s what could happen when the endangerment finding dies States, courts and Congress could be forced to fill the climate policy vacuum.

I'm told that the endangerment finding repeal package lands next week. I look at what that could mean for other climate rules, state action, and the future of U.S. climate policy.

And on Signal at jchemnick.01, for any tips on when, where, etc.!

www.eenews.net/articles/Her....

ln the best tradition of the Friday afternoon news dump, #EPA has put out announcements on #coalash and #dicamba regs. Anything else coming or can we call it a day?

After plowing through briefs in litigation over the Clean Air Act's New Source Review program, I get the sense that NSR is a lot like the federal tax code: Important, complicated and increasingly porous.

#Airpollution

E&E News: EPA science advisers’ firings blasted as ‘politically motivated’ Left hanging are EPA reviews of lead, nitrogen oxides and ozone, three pollutants associated with serious health and environmental effects.

Noting that it's now been more than a year since #Trump administration appointees effectively dissolved two influential #EPA advisory panels: The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and the Science Advisory Board. Neither has been reconstituted: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

After cutting jobs last year, the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division is seeking roughly 25 "experienced litigators." One reason, presumably, is to help defend against legal challenges to Trump administration policies.

#DOJ #ENRD

And late Friday, #EPA posted the withdrawal rule: www.epa.gov/system/files...

#AirPollution

Federal judges should still throw a stopgap Clean Air Act rollback rule, environmental groups say, even though #EPA is withdrawing it:

www.epa.gov/system/files...

#cokeovens #airpollution

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E&E News: EPA retreats on air pollution enforcement for Texas plant In a rule issued without public feedback, the agency is withdrawing from a clampdown on one of the nation’s leading sources of sulfur dioxide.

While President Trump is usually described as a populist, his appointees at #EPA have repeatedly skirted public notice and comment requirements. Here's the latest example: tinyurl.com/h2a99pkc

#opengov

E&E News: EPA suspends incinerator emission limits for disaster debris The agency turned to a procedural and obscure tool to dodge public input in waiving the standards for burning debris tied to natural disasters.

For the fifth time in two months, #EPA is resorting to a once rare rulemaking gambit to avoid advance public notice and comment requirements:
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene... via @EENewsUpdates

#opengov #incineration

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