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Trump’s EPA Can’t Erase Interstate Smog Rules | InsideClimate News

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Court: Trump’s EPA Can’t Erase Interstate Smog Rules | InsideClimate News

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday struck down a 2018 Trump administration rule that had relieved states of their obligation to curb air pollution that causes smog in downwind states hundreds of miles away.

The ruling requires the Environmental Protection Agency to draw up a new plan for addressing the nation's long-standing problems with ground-level ozone, or smog, to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. It's a task that the Trump administration has made far more difficult by rolling back the restrictions on coal power plant pollution in the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's signature policy on climate change.

Trump EPA threatens Calif. highway funding — Tuesday, September 24, 2019 — www.eenews.net

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AIR POLLUTION: Trump EPA threatens Calif. highway funding — Tuesday, September 24, 2019 — www.eenews.net

The Trump EPA is threatening to sanction California because of its lack of compliance with federal clean air standards, the latest salvo in its multipronged attack on the Golden State over climate change.

In a letter released yesterday to the California Air Resources Board, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler threatened to revoke federal highway funds in retaliation for the state's halting compliance with the Clean Air Act.

The EPA chief wrote that the state had the "worst air quality in the United States" and had "failed to carry out its most basic tasks" under the bedrock environmental law.

The Clean Air Act requires states to submit state implementation plans — commonly known as SIPs — outlining their efforts to comply with federal ambient air quality standards for ozone, particulate matter and four other criteria pollutants.

Air pollution = smoking a pack of cigarettes | WBFO

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STUDY: Air pollution = smoking a pack of cigarettes | WBFO

In what apparently is first-of-its-kind research, scientists say air pollution can be the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes - and if you already smoke, it is the equivalent of another packs. The study is important enough that it was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA has long been an arbiter of what is important in health research.

America’s Skies Have Gotten Clearer, but Millions Still Breathe Unhealthy Air – The New York Times

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America’s Skies Have Gotten Clearer, but Millions Still Breathe Unhealthy Air – The New York Times

When asked about climate change, President Trump often shifts the focus to America’s “clean air.” “We have the cleanest air in the world in the United States and it’s gotten better since I’m president,” he said again this month while meeting with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland. America’s air is much cleaner than it used to be, but it’s still not “the cleanest.” And recent data suggests that air pollution is ticking back up.

Plans in motion to convert Cayuga Power Plant to data center – The Ithaca Voice

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The Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing will end its coal operations and reopen as a data storage center if all goes according to company plans. At a Lansing Town Board meeting Wednesday, supervisor Ed LaVigne circulated a memo from the Cayuga Operating Company announcing that the company intends to transition from being a power producer to a power consumer.

Plans in motion to convert Cayuga Power Plant to data center – The Ithaca Voice