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News Articles: EPA

Many cities have older lead service lines connecting homes to the water system.

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  • Health

Lead in the drinking water is still a problem in the U.S. — especially in Chicago

The Windy City has the most lead pipes of any U.S. city. A study estimates that more than two-thirds of children there are exposed to lead in their home tap water.

April 03, 2024
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By:
  • Pien Huang
The EPA has completed a nationwide rule designed to accelerate the transition to clean trucks.

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  • Business

EPA's new rules to clean up heavy trucking met with support and criticism

The EPA has finalized the strictest-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty trucks, a category that includes everything from buses to garbage trucks.

March 29, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Morning traffic fills the SR2 freeway in Los Angeles, California. The EPA released new rules for vehicle emissions that are expected to cut tailpipe pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, which are fueling climate change.

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  • Climate

In a boost for EVs, EPA finalizes strict new limits on tailpipe emissions

The Biden administration says it is imposing the "strongest-ever" tailpipe emission rules to protect public health and fight climate change.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske and
  • Michael Copley
arkwright

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  • News

EPA tells Georgia it is not following the law on toxic waste from generating electricity

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has begun asserting its authority over Georgia plans for the long term storage of the toxic material left over from burning coal to make electricity, so called coal ash.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge from GOP-led states and industry groups seeking to block the EPA's "good neighbor" provision, which is designed to reduce smog and air pollution.

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  • Law

Supreme Court will hear challenge to EPA's 'good neighbor' rule that limits pollution

The justices will consider whether to hit pause on a federal rule designed to reduce air pollution that drifts across states and can cause health troubles.

February 21, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
In this Nov. 14, 2016, file photo, a haze hovers over the Atlanta midtown skyline from a wildfire burning in the Northwest part of the state.

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  • Climate

These Georgia counties have work to do to meet stronger EPA air quality standards for soot

Not long after receiving its first passing grade for ozone pollution from the American Lung Association, Fulton County is one of five Georgia counties that need to reduce soot in the air because the Environmental Protection Agency finalized stronger standards.

February 13, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A flare burns natural gas at an oil well on Aug. 26, 2021, in Watford City, N.D. Oil and natural gas companies would have to pay a fee for methane emissions that exceed certain levels under a new rule proposed by the Biden administration.

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  • Environment

EPA proposes a fee aimed at reducing climate-warming methane emissions

The new fee is intended to encourage the oil and gas industry to lower emissions of methane and thereby avoid paying.

January 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
On the EV bus production line at the Fort Valley Blue Bird Manufacturing plant.

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  • Climate

New federal funding for alternative fuel school buses benefiting Georgia schools and industry

The Environmental Protection Agency has released the second round of federal funds from the Clean School Bus Program to help schools transition to alternative fuel buses — including in Georgia. 

January 09, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
A flare burns off methane and other hydrocarbons as oil pumpjacks operate in the Permian Basin in Midland, Texas, Oct. 12, 2021.

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  • Climate

EPA aims to slash the oil industry's climate-warming methane pollution

New EPA rules require oil and gas companies to slash climate-changing methane from their operations.

December 02, 2023
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Lead water pipes pulled from underneath the street in Newark, N.J., in 2021.

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  • National

Biden administration proposes strictest lead pipe rules in more than three decades

Most cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed to prevent like the ones in Flint, Mich. and Washington, D.C.

November 30, 2023
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  • The Associated Press

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  • News

Feds rejected Alabama’s toxic waste disposal plan. What that means for Georgia’s coal ash

Georgia Power’s plans for disposing of toxic industrial waste at a handful of coal plants across the state have been the subject of a yearslong controversy.

August 25, 2023
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By:
  • Gautama Mehta
Representatives of Georgia nonprofit environmental groups were among those holding signs on Tuesday proclaiming “Cut Climate Pollution” in front of the Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters in Washington D.C. The EPA received one million public comments on a rule designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fueled power plants.

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  • News

Crush of Georgia environmentalists line up behind EPA regulations opposed by carbon polluters

The Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel power plants has been endorsed by a crush of environmental advocates in Georgia.

August 10, 2023
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • News

$2 million grant from EPA aims to remove lead pipes in Georgia schools and day cares

Georgia is getting $2 million in federal funding to address lead in drinking water consumed by children.

July 26, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
PBS NewsHour DeSantis defends blocking African American studies course in Florida schools

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: DeSantis and Scott widen GOP field; Supreme Court narrows scope of Clean Water Act

Friday on Political Rewind: The GOP field grows as Tim Scott and Ron DeSantis announce their campaigns for the White House. Meanwhile, President Biden leads in a new CNN poll, but his approval numbers continue to drop. And the Supreme Court strikes a blow to the EPA with its ruling on the Clean Water Act.

May 26, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
Many objects, like this bottle, have been unearthed in Elizabeth Burns’ lead-contaminated Atlanta yard.

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  • News

Lead contamination surfaces in affluent Atlanta neighborhood

The Environmental Protection Agency recently confirmed high lead levels in an upscale Atlanta neighborhood. The location stands in contrast to many polluted sites investigated by the federal Superfund program — often in former industrial or waste disposal areas where environmental racism has left marginalized groups at risk.

May 05, 2023
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  • Andy Miller
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