Read about a year filled with successes and setbacks for the EPA, with the major success being the finalization of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
Archives for December 2011
Is Clean Air Sexy Enough To Get You To Act?
Read one woman’s end of the year story about wading through charity solicitations and deciding that the fight for clean air would be her choice this year.
A Front Row Seat for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards
Learn about the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the effects of mercury poisoning on air, water and soil as one mother reflects on her polluted past.
Clean Air Christmas
Mercury Ruling: Waiting For the EPA
Learn about the complex process the EPA must go through to comply with court orders to update the Clean Air Act with new mercury standards.
Being Maccabees: A Clean Air Story Of Hanukkah
Just in time for Hanukkah, find 8 ways to increase your energy efficiency and make your oil last as long as the Maccabees!
All I Want For Christmas Is Clean Air
Read a letter to Santa from a mom who wants clean air for Christmas to reduce asthma, mercury poisoning and allergies.
Mercury Scientists Call For Strong Air Pollution Standards
Read a letter from mercury scientists and physicians all over the country supporting the EPA’s new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
Adele, Song And Air Pollution!
Learn about Adele’s surgery for a vocal cord hemorrhage and how smog and other air pollution can harm singers’ voices.
The Mercury Moment
Read a letter from New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg supporting the EPA’s regulations limiting mercury emissions from power plants.
Mercury Poisoning: A Parents’ Revolt
Read a letter from a parent determined not to let polluters influence new rules limiting the mercury emissions fro power plants.
The Mercury Moment
This post was written by for the Chicago Tribune: Over the next few days, the Obama administration will decide whether to address a major public health challenge facing the country: the large amount of mercury that continually pours out of coal-fired power …