Clean Air Task Force and Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Testify at CASAC Meeting, 11-12-03
At the November 12, 2003 meeting of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) to review the draft EPA Staff Paper on particulate matter, the Clean Air Task Force and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League called for CASAC to recommend stronger air quality standards without further delay.
Martha Keating, a scientist with the Clean Air Task Force, testified, “Since the last NAAQS review, over six years ago, hundreds of new studies — incouding 80 new time series studies — have confirmed the role of fine particulate mattter in adverse health impacts including asthma attacks, abnormal heart rhythms, stroke, cancer and premature mortality.”
Louis A. Zeller, director of the Clean Air Campaign of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) testified, “I ask the committee to heed the voices of our most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and the young, and to ignore the siren song of the electric utilities, the fossil fuel industry, and other industry groups whose counsel is always delay. More study without action will yield more sickness and more death.”
Copies of the statements are attached.
Attachments
- Testimony of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
- bredl12nov03.pdf
Testomony of Louis Zeller before CASAC, 11-12-03
- Testimony of Clean Air Task Force 11-12-03
- catftestimony111103.pdf
Testimony of Martha Keating on behalf of the CATF before CASAC, 11-12-03
