[CPEO-BIF] EPA's Soot Rule and Environmental Justice

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Soot Rule Thrusts EPA into Spotlight on Race
Air pollution disproportionately impacts minority communities and proposed changes would stymie efforts to address the disparity

by Jean Chemnick
E&E News
June 12, 2020

EPA published a proposal in the Federal Register yesterday that critics described as an assault on minority communities coping with the public health legacy of structural racism.

The agency's plan would mandate changes to the way future rules under the Clean Air Act would weigh the costs and benefits of climate and air pollution regulations.

It's the first time EPA has attempted such a rulemaking, and critics say the goal is to saddle future administrations with an inflexible set of cost-benefit methodologies that discount benefits from cutting pollutants while stressing cost to industry.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soot-rule-thrusts-epa-into-spotlight-on-race/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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