| 来源类型 | Testimony
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Comments on EPA’s Proposal to Adopt a More Stringent Ozone Standard |
| Joel Schwartz
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| 发表日期 | 2007-10-09
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Introduction
On July 11, 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a more stringent national standard for ambient ozone levels (the “Proposed Rule”).1 EPA is considering a new standard somewhere in the range of 0.060 to 0.080 parts per million (ppm), with a preferred value in the range of 0.070-0.075 ppm.
EPA relies mainly on two major types of human health effects studies in an attempt to justify a more stringent ozone standard: observational epidemiology studies and controlled laboratory studies with human volunteers. According to EPA, both types of studies provide evidence that ozone has adverse health effects at levels below the current 8-hour ozone standard of 0.085 ppm. EPA is mistaken. In its proposed rule, presentations, criteria documents, staff reports, and other paperwork, EPA creates a misleading appearance that there is a vast body of robust and consistent evidence for its claims of harm from low-level ozone. As I show below, the weight of the evidence suggests just the opposite. The current 8-hour ozone standard is more than stringent enough to protect Americans’ health “with an adequate margin of safety.”
The full text of this testimony is available here as a PDF.
Joel Schwartz is a visiting fellow at AEI. |
| 主题 | Health Care
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| 标签 | Congressional testimony
; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
; Health care policy
; Joel Schwartz
; ozone
; pollution
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/comments-on-epas-proposal-to-adopt-a-more-stringent-ozone-standard/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/209524
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Joel Schwartz. Comments on EPA’s Proposal to Adopt a More Stringent Ozone Standard. 2007.
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20071101_SchwartzOzoneComments.pdf
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Adobe PDF
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