Smog Rules

EPA Quietly Delays New Smog Rules

Mother Jones | Suzy Khimm | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency quietly delayed the release of final rules on ground-level ozone pollution standards, better known as s...

EPA Smog Limit: New Strict Requirements Replace Bush-Era Rule

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in...

EPA Scraps Bush-Era Smog Rule And Will Start Over

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is scrapping a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of ...

Smog Rule Tightened; 345 Counties Fail

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The air in hundreds of U.S. counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government said Wednesday, ordering a multibillion-dollar ...