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Viewpoints: Preserve CEQA's goals, end its abuses
February 03, 2013

Obama sounds strong on climate change, but what next?
January 25, 2013

Should California make changes to landmark 1970 law?
January 13, 2013

East Bay voters' views diverge in refinery fire's wake
September 16, 2012

California fines Caterpillar for engine violations
July 11, 2012

Viewpoints: Join fight for cleaner air in EPA proposal
July 18, 2012

Clean Air Act Videos

Lubbock businessman pleads guilty to 79-count indictment
December 15, 2012 | KJTV FOX 34 Lubbock, TX

New TV ad accuses Wilson of poisoning drinking water
July 18, 2012 | KOB Albuquerque, NM

Maricopa County and the Clean Air Act
September 14, 2011 | KNXV ABC 15 Phoenix, AZ

Clean Air Act Wikipedia Information

A Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of smog and air pollution in general. The use of governments to enforce clean air standards has contributed to an improvement in human health and longer life spans. Critics argue it has also sapped corporate profits and contributed to outsourcing, while defenders counter that improved environmental...

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Federal Government Spent More Taxpayer Money on 2012 Extreme Weather Cleanup than on Schools and Roads
May 14, 2013
WASHINGTON, May 14, 2013 – U.S. taxpayers paid nearly $100 billion responding to damages caused by last year's extreme weather events associated with climate...

Rep. Waxman and Sen. Whitehouse Urge EPA to Reconsider Decision Not to Regulate Methane Emissions from Coal Mines
May 07, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC May 7, 2013 - Today, Representative Henry A. Waxman and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse sent a letter to Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

EPA Faces Lawsuit for Chronic Undercounting of Toxic Emissions at U.S. Oil and Gas Refineries, Chemical Plants
May 02, 2013
HOUSTON & WASHINGTON, May 2, 2013 - Community groups in Texas and Louisiana -- Air Alliance Houston, Community In-Power and Development Association (CIDA),...

EPA Fails To Address Deadly Coal Mine Pollution
May 02, 2013
Image: WildEarthGuardians Washington, D.C. April 30, 2013 — A coalition of conservation groups expressed deep disappointme...

American Lung Association "State of the Air 2013" Report Finds Air Quality Improves Nationwide Despite More Spikes in Unhealthy Air Days
April 24, 2013
Washington, D.C. April 24, 2013 - The American Lung Association's "State of the Air 2013" report released today finds significant progress in the reduction of...

EPA’s Climate Change Adaptation Plan Falls Short: Groups Urge Three Key Actions
April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2013 — The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed plan for adapting to climate change has fatal flaws that will limit its ability to...

From around the web

Tyson to pay $ 4 million after anhydrous ammonia accidents
April 06, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The government, which charged the meat giant with violating the Clean Air Act, alleges that since 2006 it found instances where the gas was released by Tyson during incidences...

The Fast TrackSee who's moving up, being hired and elected
March 21, 2013 | indystar.com
Brian Mormino of Cummins named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee. Laura Gretencord of Marsh Supermarkets and Traci Dolan of...

My View: EPA uses unnecessary chilling language of fear
March 08, 2013 | indystar.com
And while the EPA's regulation under the Clean Air Act played a key role, the main engines driving this transformation were technological advances in emission control and...

MidAmerican settles lawsuit, will curtail coal use
January 23, 2013 | DesMoinesRegister.com
The Sierra Club filed a notice last July informing Mid-American it was violating the federal Clean Air Act and Iowa environmental regulations by emitting more pollution than...

Letter to the editor: Fracking is for profits, not independence
December 02, 2012 | DesMoinesRegister.com
Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, and with his lobbying for Big Oil and Big Gas, he helped make them exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act ...

Head of state's environmental agency faces criticism for relationship with coal industry
January 02, 2013 | indystar.com
His spokespeople note that the vast majority of Indiana communities have come up with long-term plans to address sewage overflows into waterways; industrial facilities' permits are up to date and up to current standards; and, for the first time, every Indiana county is meeting U.S. Clean Air Act ...

Clean Air Act on twitter

	People already tried stopping me with the Clean Air Act, and it reduced me, but I'm still here! #NotGoingAnywhere #AcidDeposition Twitter: @AcidDeposition
	As of '04, 29 states had a "flat-out exemption" for accidental pollution emissions, a Texas researcher says http://t.co/xbDgRFsayy Twitter: @Publici
	Mission Mon: In 2010 the Clean Air Act prevented 1.7 million instances of asthma attacks & so much more. http://t.co/GkyvgaI7aF #FightForAir Twitter: @Fight4AirClimbs
	Between 1970 and 1990, the Clean Air Act prevented 205,000 premature deaths. Twitter: @IKRCSPSU
	Meetings: Clean Air Act Advisory Committee; Public Teleconference: http://t.co/LbGhfzMVQ4 Twitter: @EnviroFedReg
	@somalirosek Besides, That would probably make them really mad about still having to have The Clean Air Act or the E.P.A!!! @pari_passu Twitter: @pjdelcampo2attn