Environmental groups to sue EPA over missed soot standard deadline

Environmental groups plan to sue the EPA for missing a deadline to designate areas violating the 2024 soot standard, ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the ...
E&E

EPA to delay enforcement of life-saving air pollution rule

The agency missed a Saturday deadline to determine which parts of the country are flunking the tightened 2024 rule for soot exposure. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin could delay enforcement of an air ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

Wildfire smoke pollution linked to more than 24K deaths a year, study finds

A new study estimates that chronic exposure to PM2.5 from wildfire smoke caused an average of 24,100 deaths per year in the U.S. from 2006–2020. Researchers found mortality increased with higher smoke ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Wildfires produced up to half of pollution in US West, according to study

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive ...
Yahoo

Wildfire Smoke Pollution Tied To More Than 24,000 US Deaths Per Year, New Study Finds

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AP Photo/Noah Berger Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the ...