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New limit for smog-causing emissions isn't as strict as expected
2015-10-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a major new regulation on smog-causing emissions that spew from smokestacks and tailpipes, significantly tightening the current Bush-era standards but falling short of more stringent regulations that public health advocates and environmentalists had urged. The Environmental Protection Agency set the new national standard for ozone, a smog-causing gas that often forms on hot, sunny days when chemical emissions from power plants, factories and vehicles...
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