In the 1960s, the urban air pollution crisis in America had reached a fever pitch: Cities were shrouded in smog, union steelworkers were demanding protections for their health, and the Department of ...

Industry actors, Congress, and the EPA are teaming up to potentially make our air less breathable. Such was life in the United States before Congress passed the Clean Air Act (CAA) in 1970. Fifty-five ...

Troy Lake offered a stunning confession during dinner with his new neighbor, Wyoming political consultant Jeff Daugherty: Lake would soon report to a federal prison. Daugherty was stunned again when ...

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The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to remove air emission regulations from plastic pyrolysis plants, also known as chemical or advanced recycling facilities, that break down plastic ...

The lawyers who successfully won the law’s climate authority once thought of it as a placeholder for stronger legislation. Three presidents have used the Clean Air Act to curb planet-warming pollution ...

President Donald Trump announced that he was pardoning six people whom he said had been wrongfully “persecuted” by the Biden administration for clean-air-related offences. In a Truth Social post on ...