Clean Air Program Reports
Search this section • RSS Feed
| 8/3/2004 | |
| Mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources are making the fish in our lakes, rivers, and streams unsafe to eat. | |
| Get Report | |
| 8/26/2003 | |
| The 1970 Clean Air Act, one of the nation's preeminent public health laws, has substantially improved air quality in the United States. | |
| Get Report | |
| 8/25/2004 | |
| Recognizing the threats to the regional economy and the environment presented by climate change and the benefits of early action, the governors of the six New England states and their peers in eastern Canada signed a landmark agreement in 2001 to reduce the region’s contribution to global warming. | |
| Get Report | |
| 7/3/2003 | |
| Despite tighter automobile emission standards over the last three decades, Rhode Island continues to face significant automobile-related air pollution problems. | |
| Get Report | |
| 7/2/2002 | |
| As the long Fourth of July weekend approaches, families are packing their minivans for short getaways; college students are packing their coolers to head to the beach; and city dwellers are heading out to enjoy nature in our National Parks. Children are celebrating their summer vacations at neighborhood playgrounds, summer camps and community swimming pools. However, Americans are at risk of losing these simple pleasures and much, much more. | |
| Get Report | |
| 6/5/2003 | |
| Our environment, and now our food supply, is becoming increasingly contaminated with mercury, an extremely dangerous toxic chemical. When mercury is ingested in its organic form, methylmercury, it can lead to neurological damage, especially in children. | |
| Get Report | |
| 4/4/2002 | |
| Smog and soot in our air, acid rain destroying our lakes and forests, mercury contamination in our fish and global warming threatening our future—all of these are among the serious public health and environmental problems caused by pollution from the electric power sector. | |
| Get Report | |
| 4/22/2004 | |
| On April 22, 1970, America celebrated its first Earth Day, demonstrating a national and truly bipartisan outpouring of concern for cleaning up the environment. | |
| Get Report | |
| 3/1/2005 | |
| The Bush administration has touted its so-called “Clear Skies” bill as a way to clean up power plant emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides, soot-forming sulfur dioxide, and toxic mercury. | |
| Get Report | |
| 2004-9-23 | |
| While air quality has improved in the last three decades, half of all Americans live in counties where air pollution exceeds national health standards. | |
| Get Report | |
| 11/3/2003 | |
| New England has a long way to go to meet regional goals for reducing emissions of global warming gases set forth in a landmark agreement two years ago. | |
| Get Report | |
Phone: (401) 421-6535