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If Pruitt is confirmed, it could mean the EPA stops fighting the suits, including a challenge to the Clean Power Plan, which sets pollution standards for power plants and statewide goals for cutting carbon pollution.

In accordance with the U.S. Clean Water Act, the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program, which sets pollution limits in bodies of water, is being implemented to lessen the nutrient runoff that fuels algal blooms.

State and federal environmental officials last week reached an agreement to set pollution limits for New Jersey's waterways.

The energy regulator would have the power to order the decommissioning of power generators once a station exceeded the set pollution limit.

The governments of several cities with especially affluent, well-educated citizens, including Beijing and Shanghai, are setting pollution standards as strict as Europe's.

Opponents of the new antipollution rules, which would set pollution limits based on local water conditions, attached an amendment blocking them to an unrelated military construction bill.

The government continued to set pollution standards, but the market would do the work of determining how much sulfur dioxide each individual company would be allowed to emit.

Seoul can certainly commit to more transparency in setting pollution and fuel economy rules — allowing American automakers to have a voice in the process.

In the past, many other states have followed California's lead in setting pollution rules on vehicles, and ultimately American automakers have been forced to build cars that meet California's standards and to sell them nationwide.

Sam Olens, Georgia's attorney-general, says that by setting up federal implementation plans for states to follow, rather than simply setting pollution targets and letting states come up with their own plans, CSAPR usurps state authority.

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the coalition's argument, saying that the environmental agency "must err on the side of caution" and set pollution standards at "whatever level it deems necessary and sufficient to protect the public health".