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Half of all Americans live in places with unsafe levels of air pollution. Air pollution triggers millions of asthma attacks each year and contributes to other serious health problems, particularly among children, senior citizens, and other sensitive groups. Air pollution also creates the haze that hangs over city skylines. We are working to clean up ozone smog, fine particle soot, mercury, and other toxic air pollutants from the biggest sources, including power plants, cars and trucks, and industrial plants.
Campaigns:
Defending Our Air: Power plants are the nation’s largest industrial source of smog, soot, mercury, and global warming pollution. Yet, the Bush administration’s industry-backed “Clear Skies” bill (S.131) repeals or substantially weakens Clean Air Act programs that require individual power plants to clean up.
Clean Air Now: We have a right to breathe air that doesn’t make us sick. The Bush administration is in the process of making two decisions that could have a big impact on air quality.
In The States:
News Releases:
New Air Quality Standards Reject Science, Leave Millions at Risk 9/21/06
Senate Environment Committee Narrowly Approves Clean Air Foe As Top EPA Air Official 4/26/06
Court Rejects Bush Administration Plan To Gut Key Clean Air Act Safeguard 3/17/06
New NRC Report Affirms the Role of the States in Setting Clean Air Standards 3/16/06
Public Health Prevails in First-Ever Vote on ‘Clear Skies’ Bill 3/9/05
New Report Finds One-Third of All Americans Threatened by Soot Pollution 1/19/06
Reports:
Plagued by Pollution: Unsafe Levels of Soot Pollution in 2004 1/19/06
Made in the U.S.A.: Power Plants and Mercury Pollution Across the Country 9/8/05
Power to Protect: The Critical Role States Play in Cleaning Up Pollution from Mobile Sources 6/16/05
