Science Advisers Endorse Acidification Index For EPA's Joint Sulfur, Nitrogen Air Standard

摘要

An advisory panel on May 3 endorsed plans for an index of the acidification potential of air pollutants in the environment as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's multipollutant air quality standards for sulfur and nitrogen.rnThe acidification index, which is still in development, has "begun to provide a framework for developing a secondary standard that integrates two criteria pollutants in a valid, scientifically based approach," said the letter approved by the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee's Oxides of Nitrogen and Sulfur Oxides Secondary Review Panel.