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8 mentions for outlet: Birmingham Post-Herald
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Birmingham faces EPA nonattainment designations for failing to meet federal air quality standards for both new particulate matter regulations and existing ozone standards. Anne Gilliam, diesel campaign coordinator for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, advocates…
“They've been using weather as a crutch”
“They've been using weather as a crutch”
“That's a big difference”
“This is precedent-setting”
“It's alarming that we need to find out pollution kills people before we do anything about it”
A federal appeals court upheld the EPA's stricter eight-hour ozone standard, intensifying pressure on the Birmingham area which already fails to meet the current one-hour standard. The new regulations, expected to take effect in late 2004,…
“I think people need to be aware that their utility company is out there throwing this kind of money around in Washington in order to undermine protections that are good for Alabama”
