EPA Just Can't Win with Sierra Club

When the EPA announced new national air quality standards reducing by nearly 50 percent the level of inhalable particulate matter (soot) allowed in the air, you might have expected environmental lobby groups like the Sierra Club to be happy. You would be wrong. In fact, says the Sierra Club, by being to "weak," the EPA's action "will leave 77 million Americans vulnerable to potentially deadly pollution."

Though the EPA has lowered the daily soot emission standards by a minimal amount, it ignored scientific evidence showing that it needed to go lower and also update the annual standard. Instead of protecting public health as required by law, the EPA seems to have sided with Big Polluters, who lobbied against tougher standards. -- Sierra Club press release

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