By North New Castle News Report |
Jun 21, 2023
On June 20, Reps. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, and Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.), with Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), reintroduced the bicameral Technology Assessment for Air Quality Management Act, legislation that would authorize $55 million over five years for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update and expand its tools and technologies for monitoring air quality, while ensuring that these tools are integrated with environmental justice mapping and screening to better measure and manage unhealthy levels of air pollution across the United States, particularly in frontline and fenceline environmental justice communities where Black, Brown, Indigenous and low-income residents are disproportionately likely to be harmed.