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EPA Says It Plans to Strengthen National Air Quality Measures, but Advocates Say Stricter Limits Are Needed

Ralf Vetterle
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to lower the threshold for particulate matter in the air, or what the EPA calls soot. But as WESA’s Jillian Forstadt reports, clean air advocates in Pittsburgh say the new measure isn’t strong enough.

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(Original air-date: 1/12/23)

Jillian Forstadt is a general assignment reporter at 90.5 WESA. Before moving to Pittsburgh, she covered affordable housing, homelessness and rural health care at WSKG Public Radio in Binghamton, New York. Her reporting has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition.