What are the top ten ozone health studies show effects at concentrations of 60 ppb? 

Lung Association consultant Deborah Shprentz presented the top ten list in testimony on the proposed revisions to the EPA air quality standards for ozone at a public hearing in Philadelphia on August 30, 2007.    (more…)

Heads of over 20 public health and environmental organizations — including the American Lung Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association — wrote EPA Administrator Steven Johnson on April 16, 2007,urging him to tighten the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone smog.  (more…)

EPA’s top children’s health advisors have urged Administrator Stephen L. Johnson to set tough new air quality standards for ozone air pollution. 

Citing serious risks to children’s health, the EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Commitee (CHPAC) urged EPA Administrator Johnson to set a 8-hour average standard of 0.060 ppm, down from the current standard which is effectively 0.085 ppm.  (more…)

More than 100 distinguished air pollution researchers and physicians are recommending that the U.S. EPA set much tougher new health standards for ground-level ozone, or smog.  (more…)

The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) has agreed that the the current air quality standard for ozone cannot be considered protective of public health and that EPA must lower the standard considerably to reflect studies show effects at and below the level of the current standard. (more…)

Particulate air pollution is a national public health problem and EPA’s proposed health standards are insufficient according to a letter from American Medical Association CEO Dr. Michael D. Maves to the U.S. EPA, dated April 17, 2006.
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More than 160 national, state, and local environmental, public interest, environmental justice, conservation, and religious groups sent a letter to EPA Administrator Steve Johnson on April 17, 2006 in support of strengthened air quality standards for particulate matter.
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Joint comments filed by the American Lung Association and a coalition of environmental groups lay out the legal and technical arguments why EPA’s proposed revisions to the particulate matter (PM) air quality standards are not sufficient to protect public health and the environment as required by the Clean Air Act.  (more…)

Advocates in support of stricter air quality standards for particulate matter outnumbered industry speakers by 8:1 at three public hearings convened by EPA on March 8, 2006.
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The Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee has urged EPA to set the final National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine and coarse particulate matter at lower levels than proposed.
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