Right Data

“CURRENT standards leave far too many Americans at risk, particularly children.” That’s EPA Administrator Carol Browner defending what will probably be the costliest regulatory action of the decade. The EPA wants to tighten air-quality standards for ozone, a/k/a smog, by one-third. It also proposes prohibiting tiny airborne particles, or soot, that are 1/28th of a human hair in width-75 times smaller than the particles currently regulated under the Clean Air Act.

Stricter standards will supposedly reduce by 250,000 the number of severe asthma attacks and prevent 15,000 of the 64,000 deaths linked to particulate matter each year.

ER

About the Author

Ed Rubenstein

Featured Tags

“CURRENT standards leave far too many Americans at risk, particularly children.” That’s EPA Administrator Carol Browner defending what will probably be the costliest regulatory action of the decade. The EPA wants to tighten air-quality standards for ozone, a/k/a smog, by one-third. It also proposes prohibiting tiny airborne particles, or soot, that are 1/28th of a human hair in width-75 times smaller than the particles currently regulated under the Clean Air Act.

Stricter standards will supposedly reduce by 250,000 the number of severe asthma attacks and prevent 15,000 of the 64,000 deaths linked to particulate matter each year.