EPA PLAN TO DROP LEAD NAAQS MOBILIZES BROAD NEW ACTIVIST OPPOSITION

摘要

EPA's formal consideration of an industry proposal to eliminate the national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for airborne lead has mobilized broad new opposition from environmentalists, who until now have focused more closely on other NAAQS that EPA is reviewing. At press time Jan. 14, EPA's docket on its plan for revising the lead NAAQS, which includes the option of delisting lead as a criteria pollutant, contained 2,332 form letters from environmentalists urging the administrator to "strengthen the airborne lead standard rather than eliminate or weaken it."