EPA’s preliminary findings on an air pollution standard with widespread public health implications are being bluntly rejected by most members of a key scientific advisory panel according to a November 14th Energy and Environmental News Report. The panel’s conclusions are likely to sharpen the controversy over a review criticized by detractors for turning a regulatory […]

On November 4, 2019 the Trump administration notified the international community that it plans to officially withdraw from the Paris climate accord next fall, a move that will leave the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases as the only nation to abandon the global effort to combat climate change according to a November 4, 2019 […]

In November, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) published revised Class I and II application forms and the accompanying guidance documents according to a November Trinity Consultants report. The revised documents are available on NDEP’s website . The most significant changes to the application forms include the following. Additional items are requested on the cover […]

Overall, concentrations of PM 2.5 have risen about 5.5 percent since 2016. Air pollution worsened in the United States in 2017 and 2018, new data shows, a reversal after years of sustained improvement with significant implications for public health according to an October 23, 2019 Washington Post report citing researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. In […]

Air pollution has the potential to travel from a pregnant woman’s lungs to the fetal side of the placenta, according to a new study reported September 17, 2019 in The Hill. Researchers at Hasselt University in Belgium in a study reported in Nature Communications found sootlike black carbon, a type of fine particle pollutant, on […]