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Adriana Trujillo

E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule - The New York Times - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Monday that it would take formal steps to repeal President Barack Obama's signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, setting up a bitter fight over the future of America's efforts to tackle global warming.
Adriana Trujillo

Reversing Course, E.P.A. Says Fracking Can Contaminate Drinking Water - The New York Times - 1 views

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    The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that hydraulic fracturing, the oil and gas extraction technique also known as fracking, has contaminated drinking water in some circumstances, according to the final version of a comprehensive study first issued in 2015.
Adriana Trujillo

E.P.A. Carbon Emissions Plan Could Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The Environmental Protection Agency's power plant emissions rules would save about 3,500 lives a year and have many other positive health effects, according to researchers at Syracuse and Harvard universities. The emissions reductions mandated by the rules would lead to 1,000 fewer heart attacks and other hospitalizations from air-pollution-related illness annually, the study found. 
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