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The sordid tale of L.A.'s forever war on smog
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLos Angeles' first documented smog attack — yes, we had smog attacks — was in 1943. We've been fighting the sources of pollution and the quirks of...
Marathon oil refinery in center of El Paso seeks renewal of permit regulating pollution
The El Paso Times via Yahoo Finance· 5 months agoMarathon Petroleum Corp. is seeking to renew for another 10 years the Texas air permit regulating...
Editorial: Southern California smog reduction plan should race to zero emissions
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoValentina Kostenko checks out the view from a trail near Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles on Nov....
SoCal has the worst smog in the nation. So how do major polluters avoid paying fines?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSouthern California air regulators adopted a rule that has forgiven more than $200 million in...
Regulators require stricter controls to curb leaks from oil tanks
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSouthern California air regulators have adopt more stringent rules to monitor and curb smog-forming...
Newsom relaxes refinery rules as California gas prices soar
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced that oil refineries could start selling more...
Local air regulators say it's impossible to meet smog standards without federal help
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSmog obscures the downtown Los Angeles skyline in this 2019 photo from Griffith Park. (Genaro Molina...
US EPA waives anti-smog gasoline rules for Texas county after refinery outages
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued an emergency waiver in El Paso County, Texas of rules governing gasoline vapor pressure linked to ozone pollution, or smog, due to a ...
Smog, fog and cold blankets the Wasatch Front
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAn inversion has Salt Lake County in a stranglehold, with levels of fine particulate pollution well above the federal threshold. Experts advise to limit...
BP subsidiary agrees to record $40M penalty and pollution-cutting steps at Lake Michigan refinery
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA BP subsidiary will pay a $40 million penalty and install technology to control releases of benzene...