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Statement of John L. Kirkwood
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Lung Association
On the release of the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee Recommendations
On Revisions to the National Ozone Standards
An EPA scientific advisory panel has unanimously recommended that the United States adopt much stronger air quality standards for ozone smog. The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) concluded that the standard “needs to be substantially reduced: and that there is “no scientific justification” for retaining the current standard. The standards — which establish safe levels of pollution in the air — are undergoing review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read more »
A study quantified the health benefits of moving from current air quality conditions in California to the level of the new 8-hour California ambient air quality standard for ozone, that is, 0.070 ppm. Read more »
This study examined respiratory effects of ozone in 700 infants living in nonsmoking households in southwestern Virginia. Read more »
Numerous studies have reported positive associations between both ozone and high temperatures on short-term mortality. Read more »
This time series analysis examined the relation between ozone and daily mortality in Shanghai using four years of data. Read more »
This study used a case-crossover approach to examine the relationship between various air pollutants and infant mortality in a large city in Taiwan. Read more »
A very large case-crossover study of Medicare recipients in of 36 U.S. cities evaluated the effect of ozone and PM10 on respiratory hospital admissions over a 13-year period. Read more »
This study evaluated the short-term effects of urban air pollution on cardiac hospital readmissions in survivors of heart attacks in five European cities. Read more »
This study examined the associations of ozone with childhood asthma hospitalizations as stratified by socioeconomic status in Seoul, Korea in 2002. Read more »
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