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Cutting Mercury, Protecting Children

The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently took an important step to safeguard the air we breathe and protect our kids from harm by finalizing the nation's first-ever Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plant emissions. Before MATS, there were no national standards to limit the amounts of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases power plants across the country could release into the air we breathe.  

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'Too dirty to fail'?

Americans must once again stand up for their right to clean air and clean water. In 2011, Republicans in the House averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber was in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation's environmental laws. They have picked up the pace recently and it appears their campaign will continue for the foreseeable future.  

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Group finds RI smog exceeded limits six days in 2010

There were six days last year between the Providence and New London-Norwich metropolitan areas when concentrations of ground-level ozone--the main component of smog -- exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's standard, the Environment Rhode Island Research and Policy Center reported.