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Health groups demand strict ozone standards
2014-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Healthcare professionals want the EPA to adopt the strictest standards possible for ozone pollution. A new standard is not only long overdue, but publicly needed, Janice Nolen, assistant vice president of national policy at the American Lung Association, said in a telephone conference on Tuesday. The current standard of 75 parts per billion [ppb] fails to adequately protect public health. Were proposing a new rule of 60 parts per billion over a period of 8 hours. By court order, the...
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