EDITION: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 -- 04:39 PM
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D.C. Circuit vacates EPA monitoring rule
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today tossed out a U.S. EPA rule that prevents states and local authorities from requiring additional air pollution monitoring at some industrial facilities. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel vacated the 2006 rule that revised monitoring requirements under the Clean Air Act's Title V program for power plants, oil refineries, cement kilns and waste incinerators. Go to story #1
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2. AIR POLLUTION:
More than 200 counties on proposed list of soot violators
U.S. EPA today warned that 215 counties -- including much of the Eastern Seaboard from New York to Washington, as well as Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco -- are unlikely to meet the national standard for fine particulates, or soot. Go to story #2
3. ENDANGERED SPECIES:
Lawsuits seek listing of pika, action on global warming
Environmental groups today filed separate suits against federal and California wildlife agencies over their failure to list the American pika, in an attempt to simultaneously bestow endangered species protections on the animals and force action on climate change. Go to story #3
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