Oh - and there goes your fireplace
and our Porch BBQs
...The decision is “a victory for the breathing public,” said Paul Cort, a lawyer with Earthjustice…
The court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its standards for the pollutants, fine particulates, which are linked to premature death from lung cancer and heart disease and to other health problems including asthma.
What with gubbmint-restricted health care, the problem would moot anyway.
...In a statement, the E.P.A. said only that the standards for particulate matter are “extremely important” and that the Obama administration would review the matter “to ensure that the science and the law will be properly followed.”
Among other sources, fine particulates come from diesel engines, power plants, certain industrial processes and even fireplaces. ...
These pollutants are regulated under the Clean Air Act, but there is no generally agreed safe level of exposure. So in some ways, setting standards is a value judgment more than a scientific decision.
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