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California Smog Threatens Ancient Trees

AP | By TRACIE CONE | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Video, National Park Air Pollution, Sequoia National Park, Smog, National Park Pollution, Environment, California Smog, Sequoia Smog, Green News

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California -- The California forest that is home to the biggest and oldest living things on earth, the giant Sequoia redwoods, ...

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Unfair Air: Burden of Air Pollution, Asthma Not Evenly Shared Among U.S. Children

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Environmental Justice, American Lung Association, Children, Smog, Air Pollution Children, Epa, Health Disparities, Asthma, Asthma Children, State of the Air 2012, Air Pollution, Particulate Matter, Green News

Kellen Bolden was only 10 years old when an asthma attack took his life, but his mom still remembers him as a "little man" with big aspirations. Ke...

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Gas Industry Spin Can't Cover Up Air, Water Problems Caused by Fracking

Paul Gallay | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Benzene, Fort Worth, Fracking, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Chesapeake Energy, Wyoming, Pollution, Barnett Shale, Wall Street Journal, Methane, Ed Rendell, Smog, Health, Aubrey McClendon, Ozone, Natural Gas, Green News

Fracking and its impact on public health, in particular our children's health, is a serious issue that calls for swift action -- action that the gas industry repeatedly tries to block.

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New Limits on Carbon Pollution Will Help Usher in a Clean, Healthier Future

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Smog, Coal Industry, Epa, Carbon Pollution, Asthma, Power Plants, Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Coal-Fired Plants, Green News

Americans know government safeguards drive dirty polluters to clean up their act. With these new carbon limits in place, we can count on a new generation of power plants that will create jobs, help stabilize the climate, and allow us all to breathe a little easier.

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Fighting For Air: Childhood Asthma On The Rise As Political Battles Threaten Clean Air Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Pollution and Asthma, Asthma Attack, Epa, Pollution, Particulate Matter, Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, Clean Air Act, Soot, Video, Childhood Asthma, Smog, Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Asthma, Climate Change, Air Polllution, Children's Health, Ozone, Green News

Asthma was once just an academic concern for Sylvia Brandt, who has spent years studying the chronic lung condition and calculating its tragic toll. N...

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Catalytic Paint a Pollution Solution For Manila Street Artists

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Manila, Video, Catalytic Paint, Highways, Art Meets Science, Tapio Snellman, Smog, Street Art, Cars, Paint, Pollution, Smog-Eating Paint, Boysen, Toxins, Arts News

Manila is one of the five most polluted cities in the world, and a paint company recently decided to try a unique approach to combatting airborne toxi...

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Coal Industry Attempts to Justify Pollution...Again

Adrianna Quintero | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Energy, Hispanics, Pollution, Smog, Coal, Health, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News

While the coal industry would like to profess concern for the well-being of Hispanics, actions speak louder than words and Latinos nationwide recognize this.

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Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Video, Energy Industry, Carbon Tax, Auction 2012, Smog, Oil and Gas Industry, American Petroleum Institute, Energy Industry Lobbying, Energy Industry Campaign Spending, Coal, Greenpeace, Ozone, Oil and Gas Lobby, Politics News

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When George W. Bush overruled scientists at t...

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Obama's Keystone XL Pipeline Rejection Brings 'High Water Mark' Of Respect From Some Groups

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision Wednesday to deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline gave environmental advocates the rarest of sen...

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'Vog' Clogs Hawaiian Emergency Rooms

AP | Posted 03.06.2012

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HONOLULU (AP) — Medical officials say patients affected by volcanic smog are taxing Oahu's emergency rooms after the recent closures of two hospital...

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Senate GOP Offers a Program for More Pollution, Not a Jobs Plan

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Smog, Clean Water Act, Epa, Asthma, Jobs, Power Plants, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Eric Cantor, Ozone, Clean Air Act, Green News

Protecting families from the pollutants that cause asthma, neurological disorders, cardiac disease, and premature death has put millions of Americans to work. We can create even more jobs by making our air and water even safer.

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How Congress Is Turning America Into China

Terry Tamminen | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Congress, Carbon Emissions, Smog, Climate Change, Economy, Economic Development, Economic Benefits, Clean Cities, China, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Green News

For years, China sacrificed public health for rapid economic development and is now spending billions to clean up the mess. Chinese officials are cracking down on polluters and financing eco-cities and clean energy, but recent action by the House would give America neither.

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Tell Your City Leaders: Join Call for Action on Climate Crisis

Kassie Siegel | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Epa, Polar Bears, Polar Bear, Green Cities, Climate, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Smog, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Local Government, Green News

We've got to get national leaders off the dime. Here's one way: When city leaders speak out, especially in large numbers, Washington tends to listen.

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Smoggy LA: It's Not As Bad As You Think

Hollywood, CA Patch | Kelly HartogEmail the Author | Posted 11.22.2011

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A report released Wednesday by Environment California ranks Los Angeles-Long Beach as the third smoggiest metropolitan area in the country behind Rive...

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White House Doubles Down On Pledge To Defend Clean Air Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation that would delay the implementation of certain air quality standards by furt...

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Nature Lessons From Vermont

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Clean Air, Patrick Leahy, Personal Democracy Forum, Vermont, Tar Sands Action, Bernie Sanders, Green, Hurricane Irene, Van Jones, Toxic Mercury, Epa, Smog, Moms Clean Air Force, Asthma, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Activism, Green News

Observing the rolling fields, horses and cows, undisturbed acres of rocks and trees, I felt particularly protective of what the earth offers us -- and what we need to do to defend it.

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Obama: Did I Say I'd Restore Science to Its 'Rightful Place?'

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.15.2011

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President Obama pledged to restore science to its rightful place -- but he didn't say just what he thought that rightful place to be.

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Weak Environmental Regulations Show Little Faith in U.S. Business

Andrew Winston | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Environmental Regulations, Smog, Green to Gold, Air Pollution, Job Creation, Cost of Regulation, Business Environmental Regulations, Government Regulation, Epa Regulations, Clean Air Act, Green News

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate.

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President Obama's Decision on Ozone: Bad Policy and Bad Politics

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Epa, White House?S Health Care Summit, Jobs, President Obama, Smog, Ozone, Clean Air Act, Green News

Where is the hope and change that we were promised in 2008? I suspect that a lot of people who stood in long lines to cast a vote for the President Obama are asking themselves the same question.

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Smog Alert: Polluters Breathing Easier, People Not

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.08.2011

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The Obama administration has been on the right side of the law and the science on strong clean air protections which are now under attack in Congress. So why is it yielding to industry pressure on this important standard?

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Obama's EPA: Confronting Disappointment

Al Gore | Posted 11.07.2011

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Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution. The environment, as well as our economy, will now suffer.

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WATCH: No New Jobs, Obama Delays Smog Standards And Candidates' Labor Day Plans

Posted 11.02.2011

The latest jobs report, released Friday, shows that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August as the unemployment rate remained steady at 9.1 perce...

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Retreat On Ozone Legislation Leaves Standard Based on 14-Year-Old Science

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.02.2011

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"Ridiculous." "Illegal." "Dangerous." President Barack Obama's decision to shelve a proposed tightening of ozone standards has prompted a deluge of an...

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How Can Anyone Be Against Clean Air?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Soot, Gray Is Green, Smog, Clean Air Promise Campaign, Asthma, American Lung Association, Environment, Epa, Clean Air, Green News

Recently, a misguided political movement, has launched a full-on assault on America's environmental and public health safeguards. And it's got clean air protections square in its crosshairs.

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New Smog Standards Will Prevent Respiratory Illness, but Polluters Don't Want to Clean Up Their Mess

Peter Lehner | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Smog, Epa, Respiratory Illnesses, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Environment, Epa Clean Air Act, Clean Air Act EPA, Epa Clean Air, New Smog Regulations, Clean Air, Smog Regulations, Green News

It's true that businesses will have to pay to reduce their smog pollution. It is also true that the costs of reducing pollution are routinely dwarfed by the value.

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