The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) will hold an oversight hearing on May 20, 2008 to examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new ozone standards.

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WASHINGTON - July 19 - With the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) soon to make a critical decision about deadly particle soot pollution, medical experts and air pollution research specialists today called on EPA and a Senate committee to ignore what they called “bad science.”
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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to enact tougher regulations on maximum annual exposure levels for particulate matter.
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On January 12, 2006, Congressman John Dingell wrote to EPA Administrator Steve Johnson questioning EPA’s recently announced political review of the air quality standard-setting process.
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U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined by eight of his Senate colleagues, today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson on Feburay 3, 2006, urging the Administrator to base his upcoming decision regarding the Particulate Matter (PM) air quality standards on the extensive scientific record available, rather than on political considerations.

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On October 2, 2002, Senator Jim Jeffords (I-VT) held a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to review studies of the health impacts of PM2.5, particularly those effects associated with power plant emissions.

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On May 8, 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee chaired by Rep. Sherwood Boehlart (R-NY) held a hearing to examine what is known about the impact of small particle air pollution on human health. The hearing was intended to assess the state of scientific knowledge about small particle air pollution and its effects on health and to ask how we should go forward with a research agenda to address outstanding questions. Dr. Joel Schwartz, Associate Professor in the Harvard School of Public Health and the Harvard Medical School, and a leading researcher on the health effects of particulate matter presented some very compelling testimony.
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