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… rabbis and religious from 44 states and Puerto Rico wrote in a letter delivered Aug. 8 to EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We have a moral obligation to protect our climate," they said, with 200-plus Catholic women religious among the signatories. In May, EPA proposed standards for carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act for new and existing power … from the combustion of fossil fuels. The proposed standards seek to curb that output, with the EPA estimating through 2042 they will cumulatively slash up to 617 million metric tons of carbon …

… comments on postcards to be sent to the United States Environmental Protections Agency, or EPA, in support of the proposed changes. Panel host IHM Sr. Barbara Stanbridge said, "We want to encourage the EPA to truly be an environmental protection agency … not [one] protecting the fossil fuel … power sector was the next largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States in 2021. The EPA's proposed limits target these emissions, which according to the EPA are "almost entirely" …

… equaling about 167,000 pounds of coal that would have been burned each year, according to the EPA's greenhouse emission calculator. (The calculator uses national averages.) With the …

… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …

… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …

… PFAS are linked to cancer, suppressed immune responses and other health concerns. The new EPA rule requires public water system monitoring to strictly limit six PFAS chemicals, instead of the previously unenforceable guidance of just two. The EPA's action signals heightened concerns about drinking water quality and safety. A Feb. 16 TIME …

… annually. Attendees at "Detroit's Dirty Air" were invited to submit public comments to the EPA and urge it to save lives by setting soot pollution standards to the amount "recommended by the EPA's own scientific advisory." Jesuit Fr. Lorn Snow, Gesu pastor and event panelist, said, "I …

… this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution," EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a March 14 statement. "That's why President Biden … launched a whole-of-government approach to aggressively confront these harmful chemicals, and EPA is leading the way forward," Regan said. "EPA's proposal to establish a national standard for PFAS in drinking water is informed by the …

… more lives, say faith groups, public health officials and environmental justice advocates. The EPA issued a proposal Jan. 6 to strengthen existing limits on airborne fine particulate matter — … 9 and 10 micrograms per cubic meter. The proposed rules were the first in a decade from the EPA after the Trump administration in 2020 opted to keep in place the 2012 standards. Soot, or PM … impacts of air pollution. It's everybody's problem," Landrigan told EarthBeat. As for the EPA's proposed limits, the pediatrician and epidemiologist said he would bring the limit as low …

… than you'd think. Consider the recent  Supreme Court decision  in West Virginia v. EPA at the end of June. The court's conservative majority ruled that the EPA can't implement sweeping regulations on carbon dioxide without the explicit approval of … was required to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA, under President George W. Bush, refused to do so, saying that the Clean Air Act didn't give …

… matter sensors on the church roofs, manufactured by  QuantAQ , are a low-cost version of the EPA's sensors, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even the monitors MCU is using cost …

… as hazardous substances and to potentially list the chemicals as toxic pollutants. In August, EPA proposed a rule to label two PFAS as hazardous substances. The House bill drew support from …