The need to clean up air pollution and address climate change is more urgent than ever. Thankfully, help is on the way: strong rules to do just that are now on the books. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized several key clean air and climate protections, including:
- Tighter limits on mercury and air toxics from power plants
- Limits on the carbon pollution that drives climate change from power plants
- Strong new limits on methane pollution from the oil and gas industry
- An updated national standard for particle pollution
- New cleaner cars standards
- New cleaner trucks standards
These are big wins for health, and we’re proud to have advocated for them. We worked with health organizations, health professionals and advocates all over the country to push EPA to finalize these rules. Not surprisingly, these rules are popular. We conducted polls that show that the public supports cleaning up power plants and reducing emissions from new cars and trucks.
Of course, there’s still work to do. Now we’re calling on EPA to keep up the progress and finalize more clean air protections, including pollution limits on more power plants and a stronger national limit on ozone pollution.
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Learn more about how each rule and how it benefits health.
Page last updated: September 10, 2024
