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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level stanley cup o stanley cup zone 鈥?better known as smog 鈥?despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.The decision by EPA Administrator Michael Regan means that one of the agency most important air quality regulations will not be updated until well after the 2024 presidential election.I have decided that the best path forward is to initiate a new statutory review of the ozone standard and the underlying air quality criteria, Regan wrote in a letter to the EPA advisory panel last month. The letter cites 8220 everal issues raised by the panel in a recent report that warrant additional evaluation and review.The review, which will last at least two years, will ensure that air quality standards reflect the latest science in order to best protect people from pollution, Regan said.READ MORE: Federal appeals court halts EPA effort to impose good neighbor ; air pollution plan in MissouriRegan decision avoids an election year battle with industry groups and Republicans who have complained about what they consider overly intrusive EPA rules on power plants, refineries, automobiles and other polluters.The delay ma stanley cup rks the second time in 12 years that a Democratic administration has put off a new ozone standard prior to an election year. President Ba Kyfk Rep. Justin Jones brings infant-sized casket into Tennessee Capitol
In the first 14 months of the pandemic, nearly one in five American households adopted a cat or dog. But as COVID precautions shift and inflation takes its toll on the economy, many of t stanley cup hose pets are going back into shelters 鈥?creating a crisis of capacity. Four percent more animals entered shelters than left last year 鈥?and animals are sitting in shelters for longer now than at any time in the past four years, according to Shelter Animals Count, a national database for shelter animals.Compounding that concern is that 88 percent of shelters have reported being short on staff during the p stanley cup andemic, according to a survey from Best Friends Animal Society. Meanwhile, in January of last year, there were nearly 60,000 more dogs and 40,000 more cats available for adoption than at the same time the previous year..To get animals into homes, shelters have lowered adoption fees and are offering resources to current owners whose finances might make them unable to keep their pets.Lisa LaFontaine, CEO of the Humane Rescue Alliance, said the organizations program Treat to Retu stanley cup rn helped 642 pets in the Washington, D.C., area stay with their owners last year by paying to treat minor medical issues the owners otherwise couldnt afford. She said rising costs have put pet owners in a tough spot. We ;ve started to do things like give out free pet food, LaFontaine said. Last year, we gave out nearly 400,000 pet meals so that people didn ;t have to worry about food if they were strugglin |
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