EPA
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Institute, one of two majority-Black communities in the state, was left out of a regulatory effort earlier this year to tighten limits on cancer-causing chemicals.
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From a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep.
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The new law amends the Clean Air Act – the nation’s primary air quality law – to define several greenhouse gases as air pollutants.
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