WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — CBD environmental health senior attorney Robert Ukeiley said in the release that inhabitants of the US states of California, Idaho and Pennsylvania desperately need cleaner air, but Pruitt was sacrificing their health to boost fossil fuel industry profits.
"By failing to enforce common-sense measures to reduce soot, [US President Donald] Trump’s EPA is sentencing thousands of Americans to asthma and heart attacks and death," Robert Ukeiley said.
BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for their failure to enforce air quality standards that limit deadly soot pollution in states such as California, Idaho, and Pennsylvania.
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Inhabitants of the US states of California, Idaho and Pennsylvania desperately need cleaner air, but Pruitt was sacrificing their health to boost fossil fuel industry profits, Ukeiley added. The Center for Environmental Health and the Clean Air Council joined the CBD in filing the lawsuit in US District Court for the Northern District of California.
"Soot, which comes mainly from burning fossil fuels in cars, power plants and other industrial facilities, causes thousands of premature deaths every year, as well as a range of debilitating health problems for people and wildlife," the release said.
Soot is generated by the burning of fossil fuels and makes its way deep into the lungs and can fester as the body's immune system attempts to crush the interloper.
2.9 million children threatened by #oilandgas #airpollution. Updated map contains information for #idaho #idleg https://t.co/UN9q9Xvxiz pic.twitter.com/TmOYKT67kS
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"An EPA study found that Clean Air Act programs to reduce fine particle pollution prevented more than 160,000 deaths, 130,000 heart attacks and 1.7 million asthma attacks in 2010 alone," the CBD said in the release.
Can someone tell me if this thick haze over Oakland is Southern California fire smoke, air pollution, or just fog? (Cc @SFmeteorologist) pic.twitter.com/lB2uB1msMV
— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) 15 декабря 2017 г.
Earlier on Wednesday, the US Justice Department announced in a statement the US state of Pennsylvania had settled a federal lawsuit against steel company ArcelorMittal Monessen for allegedly failing to control the emission of particulate matter.
ArcelorMittal Monessen will pay $1.5 million in penalties and is required to implement air pollution controls to limit particulate and sulfur compound emissions, the Justice Department said. The cost of the anti-air pollution measures is about $2 million.
