Clean Air Act

This was written by Martha Roberts. It originally appeared on Climate 911: This week is a crucial moment for climate progress. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is moving ahead in his efforts to revoke the Clean Power Plan, one of our most important efforts to tackle the...

Scott Pruitt is failing as EPA Administrator.

Most Americans, especially parents, are watching in horror as the Trump administration’s EPA does everything it can to go retrograde. This includes destroying public lands for economic gains, promoting fossil fuels (domestically and abroad), and stripping out existing regulations which have protected the country and...

Back in 2012, I wrote about the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) and the impacts of pollution that traveled via wind from one state to another. It was a look at the effects of dirty air from “upwind” states on “downwind” states. Now, 5 years...