EPA Takes Flack Over Soot

Living on Earth
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Critics say EPA won’t pay for monitors that measure deadly particulate pollution and won’t pay attention to the agency’s own scientists who warn of health risks. Living on Earth’s Jeff Young reports on the fallout from EPA’s decisions on soot.

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