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Issue:

Health & Communities

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Background:

Mobile Source Air Toxics: An Avoidable Threat

Buck in Brief:

Breathing Less Poison (09/18/06)

Feature:

Legal Document:

04-0094 consent decree

Air toxics victory 2000 deadlines federal court decision

United States District Court for the District of Columbia Air Toxics Deadlines Opinion 08/03/2006

Policy Reference:

EPA’s Proposal to Waive Clean Air Protections for Millions of Americans: The Politics of Coarse Particle Pollution

Press Release:

As EPA Nominee Faces Hearing, Environmental Groups Point the Way to Clean Air Reforms (01/14/09)

EPA Greenlights Troublesome Benzene Program, Creating Dangerous Hot Spots (02/09/07)

Statement from Earthjustice on Senate Environment Committee EPA Oversight Hearing (02/06/07)

Federal Court Holds Environmental Protection Agency's Air Toxics Efforts "Grossly Delinquent" (08/03/06)

Government Report Finds EPA Fails In Protecting Against Toxic Air Pollution (07/26/06)

Reports:

Additional Analyses of Mercury Emissions Needed

GAO Report: Observations on EPA's Cost-Benefit Analysis of its Mercury Control Options

Government Accountability Office Clean Air report on EPA Air Toxics Program

Harvard Report: Controlling Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants

Cases

Air Toxics: Enforcing Deadlines

In Brief: Lawsuits to compel EPA to create overdue regulations to control air toxic emissions and protect public health

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Clients:

US Public Interest Research Group

Updated: January 3, 2006

Case #03524, 03764, 03770, 03819

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