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| As the Senate prepares to vote on whether to overturn an EPA rule on power plant mercury emissions, a new report released by the Florida Public Interest Research Group (Florida PIRG), shows that the St. Johns River Power Park and Northside Generating Station, owned by JEA, was the largest power plant mercury polluter in Florida, and Duval County topped the list of Florida counties with the highest level of power plant mercury emissions. | |
| The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized new national air quality standards for particle “soot” pollution that ignore the overwhelming medical and scientific consensus that the standards need to be substantially strengthened to protect Americans from this deadly air pollutant. | |
| Global warming pollution in Florida jumped 347% between 1960 and 2001, according to "The Carbon Boom," a new analysis of government data released today by the Florida Public Interest Research Group (Florida PIRG). | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new standards to reduce diesel pollution from the nation’s boats, ships and trains, which are large, long-overlooked pollution sources. Diesel pollution contributes to lung cancer, heat attacks, asthma attacks, strokes, and premature deaths. | |
| The Bush EPA has announced a flawed new national air quality standard for ozone “smog” and called for sweeping changes to the Clean Air Act that threatens the health of Floridians and fundamentally weakens one of the nation’s most important environmental laws. | |
