SB 1252: Protecting California from Bush rollbacks (particulates and dust)

The US EPA has been a busy agent of the Bush Administration’s plan to roll back environmental protections. In addition to proposing to weaken the Toxics Release Inventory (see AB 2490 and SB 1478), it also proposed to exempt agricultural and mining sources of particulate matter pollution from clean air standards and to remove rural areas from protections against dust pollution. SB 1252 (Florez) would have maintained the existing standards and penalties in the event they were relaxed by the federal government.