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| The EPA formally denied California’s request for a Clean Air Act waiver of preemption today, blocking the efforts of thirteen states that seek to require automakers to cut pollution from automobile tailpipes. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new standards to reduce diesel pollution from the nation’s trains, boats, and ships, which are large, long-overlooked pollution sources. Diesel pollution contributes to lung cancer, heat attacks, asthma attacks, strokes, and premature deaths. | |
| Across the country and New Jersey, diesel fuel is getting cleaner. After close to a decade of advocacy by environmental groups, the EPA is rolling out the introduction of ultra low sulfur diesel fuel for all on-road diesel trucks and buses by this Sunday. | |
| A federal appeals court on March 17 stuck down a highly controversial air pollution rule that was a centerpiece of the Bush administration’s environmental agenda. | |
| NJPIRG on March 16 commended the National Research Council (NRC), an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, for resisting pressure from special interests to erode the ability of New Jersey and other states to protect their citizens from air pollution and global warming. | |
| A new NJPIRG analysis of a proposed Bush Administration rule reveals that residents of New Jersey would lose valuable information about the amounts and type of harmful chemicals discharged by industrial facilities in their neighborhoods if the rule is finalized. | |
| New Jersey voters delivered a strong mandate to cleanup diesel emissions on November 8, approving Ballot Question Number 2. | |
| NJPIRG launched a phone bank, a grassroots voter education drive and released a public service announcement on video on November 2 to educate voters about Ballot Question #2. “We want New Jerseyans to know that there is an important question on the ballot this Tuesday for the environment and for the health of New Jersey,†said Ethan Lavine, Clean Air Advocate for NJPIRG. | |
| NJPIRG joined with health professionals and advocates at the State House on September 28 to endorse the “yes†vote for Ballot Question 2 for this November’s election. | |
| NJPIRG joined Acting Gov. Dick Codey, legislative co-sponsors Sen. Bob Smith (D-17) and Asm. John McKeon (D-27), the DEP and fellow environmental and health advocates to celebrate the signing of diesel clean-up legislation that will clean up over 30,000 diesel vehicles over the next decade. | |
| Public health advocates joined legislative co-sponsors Sen. Bob Smith (D-17) and Asm. John McKeon (D-27), chairs of their respective environment committees, today to push for passage of the diesel reduction bill on Monday. | |
| New Jersey residents face the nation's 2nd greatest cancer risk from diesel exhaust according to a new national report released on February 22, 2005. | |
| As a key U.S. Senate committee considers the Bush administration’s bill to delay and weaken clean air safeguards, a new Clear the Air report released today by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) finds that 75 percent of New Jersey’s oldest and dirtiest power plants are getting dirtier, not cleaner. | |
| The New Jersey Clean Cars bill is on the governor's desk awaiting his signature after the Senate and Assembly moved the bill through final passage last night. | |
| Statement of Dena Mottola, Executive Director, NJPIRG | |
| Two days after the near unanimous passage of the Clean Cars Act out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the bill is on the verge of passage by the full Legislature on Monday. | |
| Clean air advocates from the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, released today the findings of a major study of the health impacts of air pollution in the state and called for urgent action to protect public health. | |
| Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its intent to designate all of New Jersey out-of-compliance with health-protective anti-smog standards intended to clean the air. | |
| The vast majority of air pollution from the nation's dirtiest power plants is pollution that should be cleaned up with modern pollution controls under the Clean Air Act, but that would remain untouched under the Bush administration's new rules relaxing power plant emission limits, according to a report released today. | |
| New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG), seniors, health professionals and children's advocates released a new report on air pollution today at press conferences across the state. | |
| With summer smog season coming to an end environmental groups gathered at the Statehouse to deliver over 10,000 postcards which call on the legislature to pass the Clean Car Act at the next possible moment. | |
| Small oil-fired generators have air pollution rates which are much higher than conventional power and are most often used at times of peak electricity demand when we can least afford the excess pollution, according to a report released today by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. | |
| On the day after the end of New Jersey's smoggiest summer in recent memory, NJPIRG, environmental groups and a legislator came together to release Ready To Roll, a new report documenting manufacturer readiness and consumer demand for cleaner cars in New Jersey. | |
| Smog monitors in 42 states and the District of Columbia recorded more than 4,600 instances during which Americans were exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution in 2001, including 190 instances in New Jersey according to the annual Danger in the Air study by New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. | |
| A new study released today by NJPIRG titled Children at Risk: How Air Pollution from Power Plants Threatens the Health of America's Children finds that 1,696,787 children in New Jersey live in the shadows of old, dirty coal-fired power plants. | |
| Most of the nation's oldest and dirtiest power plants, are actually getting dirtier, not cleaner, according to a new report released today by the Clear the Air Campaign. | |
| Assemblyman and West Orange Mayor John McKeon (D-27) took a low emission spin through Eagle Rock Reservation yesterday, as a part of a Clean Car Campaign coordinated by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group. | |
| The air in New Jersey contains hazardous air pollutants that increase the risk of getting cancer, a new analysis of federal air pollution data shows. | |
| On the heels of President Bush breaking a major campaign promise to cut global warming pollution, today members of Congress introduced the "Clean Smokestacks Act of 2001" and "Clean Power Act of 2001." | |
| Pollution from electric power plants kills 1,100 people in New Jersey, and 30,000 Americans across the country every year, according to a new report released today by NJPIRG and Clear the Air, the National Campaign Against Dirty Power. | |
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