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| 9/24/2002 | |
| Despite tighter emission standards on automobiles over the last three decades, New Jersey continues to face significant automobile-related air pollution problems. | |
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| 8/29/2002 | |
| Ground-level ozone or smog is a dangerous respiratory irritant that affects the health of millions of Americans each year. | |
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| 8/26/2003 | |
| The 1970 Clean Air Act, one of the nation’s preeminent public health laws, has substantially improved air quality in the United States. Despite this progress, many of our cities, suburbs, and even treasured national parks are shrouded in smog for much of the summer. The major sources of this pollution include power plants, cars, trucks, and heavy equipment, such as that used in construction and farming. | |
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| 6/11/2003 | |
| New Jersey faces chronic and persistent air pollution problems. | |
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| 5/5/2002 | |
| Toxic air pollutants pose a major public health threat in New Jersey. The risk of contracting cancer from airborne toxics vastly exceeds established health guidelines for 95 percent of the state’s residents. | |
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| 5/14/2002 | |
| Millions of children in America today are exposed to unhealthy air at home, at school, or at their playground. | |
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| 4/4/2002 | |
| Smog and soot in our air, acid rain destroying our lakes and forests, mercury contamination in our fish and global warming threatening our future—all of these are among the serious public health and environmental problems caused by pollution from the electric power sector. | |
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| 2/22/2005 | |
| Everyone has experienced it: getting hit right in the face by a cloud of acrid diesel smoke. Perhaps you were standing on a street corner when a bus or truck whizzed by. | |
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| 12/8/2003 | |
| Air pollution takes a significant toll on human health in New Jersey every year, shortening thousands of lives and sending thousands of people to area hospitals. | |
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| 12/2/2005 | |
| The Toxic Release Inventory program is under attack. | |
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| 11/28/2001 | |
| Toxic chemicals in New Jersey air pose a serious threat to public health in the state. Although levels of many air toxins have declined over the last decade, the concentrations of these hazardous substances in outdoor air remain far above health protective guidelines established by the federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. | |
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| 10/28/2003 | |
| Since taking office in 2001, President Bush and his administration have broken two important promises to the American public concerning pollution emitted by the nation's oldest and dirtiest power plants. | |
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| 1/26/2005 | |
| This report examines U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data on power plant emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from 1995 to 2003 and finds that emissions are on the rise at many plants. | |
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