air pollution

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third by 2030. But it delays the deadline for some states to begin complying until long after President Barack Obama leaves office.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a sweeping initiative to curb pollutants blamed for global warming, the Obama administration unveiled a plan Monday that cuts carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by nearly a third over the next 15 years, but pushes the deadline for some states to comply until long after President Barack Obama leaves office.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As governors, businesses and environmentalists brace for new limits on power plant pollution, President Barack Obama is casting his unprecedented effort to curb greenhouse gases as essential to protect the health and wellbeing of children.

China's government plans to take 6 million older, polluting vehicles off the road this year in an effort to revive stalled progress toward cleaning up smog-choked cities.

A new American Lung Association report reveals that the air in New Jersey is cleaner when it comes to particle or soot pollution, but the Garden State has some of the worst ozone pollution in the nation.

Eight East Coast states, the federal government and citizens groups from Indiana have reached an agreement with one of the country's largest electricity producers to stop burning coal at two Midwest power plants.

Federal and state officials say a southern New Jersey glass manufacturer has agreed to pay $300,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations that it violated air pollution standards.

New Jersey officials say Chevron U.S.A. has agreed to pay nearly $500,000 to resolve allegations that its asphalt refinery in Perth Amboy violated air pollution laws.

New Jersey has led the way on policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions and promote clean energy.

A bill is heading through the Legislature that would keep New Jersey in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).