‘EPA’s new standards fail to protect the health of the public’

Statement from John L. Kirkwood

President and CEO
American Lung Association

NEW YORK September 21, 2006. We are extremely disappointed with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter pollution announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  

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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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Statement by John L. Kirkwood, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Lung Association

Proposed Standards Fail To Protect Public Health; Must Be Made Stronger
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Statement by John L. Kirkwood President and Chief Executive Officer American Lung Association on Proposed New Particle Pollution Standards
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A Statement from John L. Kirkwood, President & CEO, American Lung Association
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Statement of John L. Kirkwood, President and CEO American Lung Association on the Health Effects Institute report on Revised Analyses of Time-Series Studies of Air Pollution and Health
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Washington, DC (November 13, 2002) – In a major victory for clean air and public health, a coalition of health and environmental groups today announced a court settlement that will improve cleanup of smog (ozone) in communities across the country. The settlement, reached with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal court lawsuit, will kick off a long-delayed process for lowering ozone levels to meet new national air quality standards issued in 1997.

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Washington, DC, March 26, 2002 - The American Lung Association® hailed today’s D.C. Court of Appeals decision upholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine soot particles (PM2.5) and ozone (smog).
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Washington, DC, March 5, 2002 — The American Lung Association® today said that a new study indicting fine particle or soot air pollution as a cause of lung cancer among people living in many large U.S. cities adds urgency to the need for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to end a needless delay in implementing strong new rules to curb fine particle emissions.
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July 23, 2001

Research Triangle Park, NC — The health threat from tiny soot particles is so grave that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should adopt a tougher new short-term standard to protect public health while retaining the longer-term standard adopted in 1997, a coalition led by the American Lung Association® testified today.

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