The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Friday more aggressive air quality standards for particulate matter, pollutants small enough to be inhaled and cause respiratory illness and other ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a key update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot – a step toward reducing deadly air pollution that’s been over a decade in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing tougher standards for a deadly air pollutant, saying that reducing soot from tailpipes, smokestacks and wildfires could prevent thousands of ...

Twelve Texas counties have recently exceeded federal air quality standards for particulate matter, commonly known as soot. But Texas environmental regulators are proposing that only four of them be ...

One of the major lessons learned about the Covid-19 pandemic was the role ventilation played in its spread. In the summer and fall of 2020, the World Health Organization and then the Centers for ...

The target air quality of PM2.5 is five micrograms per cubic meter or less. Only 13 countries, territories and regions globally met the World Health Organization's guidelines for healthy air quality ...

For the first time since 2012, the US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing an update to the federal air quality standard for fine soot – a long-awaited step to reduce deadly air pollution. The ...

Also, the Shelby County Health Department will provide free flu shots on two dates this month. Here's the most ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved a long-pending air quality plan submitted by Louisiana, determining that the state is not significantly contributing to sulfur dioxide pollution ...

FRESNO, Calif. — The ongoing effects of climate change have left much of the western United States to suffer from worsening air quality in recent years, with more than 40 percent of people in the ...