The US Environmental Protection Agency is expected to publish new proposed rules setting air quality standards for soot this week under terms of a tentative settlement agreement reached with eleven states that sued EPA for NOT acting to promulgate rules for fine particulate matter under the Clean Air Act.If you are curious about the air quality where you live you can visit the EPA Air Now website and check out the daily readings being reported. For most of us the map looks green (green is good remember) and the urban areas tend to shade yellow…