A playground north of the Oak Creek Power Plant. The federal government is cracking down on air pollution in cities like Milwaukee. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tightened ...

New limits on lung-damaging soot proposed by President Joe Biden’s administration would effectively require cleaner factories, power plants and vehicles in Chicago and several other urban industrial ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is strengthening air quality standards on fine particulate matter, or soot, a pollutant that contributes to thousands of premature ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized long-awaited new limits on soot, ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Q: We painted our brick fireplace white. But after some use, smoke has stained the brick. What’s the best way to clean it? A: Soot is mostly carbon particles, but it often has a greasy nature that ...

“Vermonters value both human and environmental health, but the Trump Administration is neglecting both in its failure to implement the soot standard,” said Attorney General Charity Clark. “With ...

South Florida air quality was graded by American Lung Association, which analyzed 2022-2024 data to grade counties on ...