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Court Keeps EPA’s Soot Pollution Rule
A federal appeals court has blocked the EPA’s attempt to scrap a Biden-era rule tightening limits on deadly soot pollution, ruling the administration’s arguments lacked merit. The rule, which would lower annual soot limits from 12 to 9 micrograms per cubic meter, is projected to prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma cases, thousands of hospital visits, and premature deaths each year. Environmental advocates hailed the decision as a major public health victory, while the EPA, which claimed the rule would cost billions and wasn’t fully science-backed, is now reviewing the ruling. For now…
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