Air Pollution Rules Buckle Under Brutal Heat Waves

07/14/21 • 10 min

Extreme heat waves are breaking out all across the country, and some environmental activists are questioning whether this unprecedented summer is making the EPA's air pollution regulations obsolete.

On today's episode of our environmental podcast, Parts Per Billion, Bloomberg Law's Jennifer Hijazi explains how high heat can both trigger more pollutant emissions and also intensify the pollution already in the air. And she explains why the EPA's cap-and-trade system for managing these pollutants is having trouble keeping up.

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Extreme heat waves are breaking out all across the country, and some environmental activists are questioning whether this unprecedented summer is making the EPA's air pollution regulations obsolete.

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Parts Per Billion - Air Pollution Rules Buckle Under Brutal Heat Waves

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Do our air pollution rules still makes sense when the mercury is at a hundred degrees in Seattle. Today on the podcast, we talked about how our federal regulations are one of the many things buckling under our current peat waves. Hello, and welcome back yet again to Parts Pavilion, the environmental podcast from Bloomberg Law. I'm your host, David Schultz. So I was talking to someone earlier this week from the Greater Pacific Northwest region, an