Biden EPA to tighten soot standards Trump left unchanged

[rangerrebew]

Biden EPA to tighten soot standards Trump left unchanged

By E.A. Crunden | 10/08/2021 03:39 PM EST

 

EPA career employees have again found grounds to tighten national soot standards after the Trump administration opted to leave them unchanged.

The agency said this afternoon that evidence warrants cutting the annual average exposure standard for soot from 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air to as low as 8 micrograms. EPA also said it tentatively sees grounds for cutting the 24-hour standard from 35 micrograms down to 30 micrograms, although any such tightening would hinge on a different policy approach.

According to a draft policy assessment, career employees found that "available evidence and information suggests that both long- and short-term PM2.5 exposures are associated with adverse health effects, including more severe effects such as mortality." Soot is also known as PM2.5, or very fine particulate matter. EPA concluded that the current standards must be tightened in order to protect the public.

The decision has major implications for both air quality and environmental justice goals.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-epa-to-tighten-soot-standards-trump-left-unchanged/

[EdinVA]

Will they ban fireplaces/etc?

[rustynail]

Will they ban fireplaces/etc?

(not ban but regulate out of existence)
Soot, or fine particulate matter, is made up of microscopic particles released from smokestacks, diesel trucks, wood-burning stoves and other sources
https://news.yahoo.com/epa-tighten-standards-soot-pollution-155910484.html

[Smokin Joe]

How about banning wildfires our West?

We have weeks of our summer spent with gray skies, reduced visibility, the smell of smoke, and the sun shining through red at noon because of poor forestry practices hundreds of miles away.

Soot from everyday stuff is the least of our worries.

[EdinVA]

We need to get rid of the epa.... ripe with abuse and no way to control it..

[Smokin Joe]

We need to get rid of the epa.... ripe with abuse and no way to control it..

In order to keep justifying their jobs, they have to keep moving the goalposts.

It has cost incredible amounts of money to comply, and then be told that just isn't enough as the standards are changed, yet again.

How clean is clean?

How about regulating dust? (both mineral and the run-of-the mill particles of dead skin).

When rivers caught on fire, they had a purpose.
Now, not so much.

[rustynail]

We need to get rid of the epa.... ripe with abuse and no way to control it..

Richard Nixon should be dug up and hung.

[Fishrrman]

Comrade Ed wonders:
"Will they ban fireplaces/etc?"

Eventually, comrade.
Only a matter of time.
This will be required not because The Party expects it to produce actual results in the environment.
The "results" we will be seeking are the further submission of the populace.
Folks like... you.