EPA Science Advisers To Reassess Data For Pending Strict Ozone NAAQS

摘要

EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) will meet in February to reassess how much weight the agency should give in its pending ozone standard to studies justifying a strict tightening of the Bush-era standard, a key question that could influence the stringency of the final standard due for release by July. The American Petroleum Institute (API), meanwhile, is urging CASAC at its upcoming Feb. 18 teleconference to address other issues with the science that the agency is relying on to propose a tightening of the Bush EPA's ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS). For example, the group says there are flaws in both the epidemiological studies that EPA relied on in its proposal and the studies supporting the strictest proposed standard.