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At Lung Last Smog can kill, says report		22 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:57 PM on 22 Apr 2008 Short-term exposure to smog is clearly linked to premature deaths, a National Academy of Sciences report has concluded. Some Bush administration officials have claimed that the link between ground-level ozone and health is, well, hazy: when the U.S. EPA was determining acceptable air standards for ozone last month, officials in the Office of Management and Budget claimed there was "considerable uncertainty" of a ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, ozone, politics, regulation (all these topics)

Bush Whacked President Bush interfered to weaken U.S. ozone standards		14 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:39 AM on 14 Mar 2008 President Bush interfered at the last minute to weaken the recently announced U.S. ozone standards, according to EPA documents. On Wednesday, the EPA set both the "public health" standard (how much ozone is in one place at one time) and the "public welfare" standard (consideration of the long-term effect of ozone) at the same level. Before Bush interfered, the agency planne ...
Topics: air pollution, George Bush, health, jackassery, news, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

Gasp! EPA lowers ozone limit, but ignores scientific advisers' calls to lower it more		12 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 3:34 PM on 12 Mar 2008 Photo: iStockphoto In an effort to clear up smog, the U.S. EPA on Wednesday lowered the permissible amount of ozone in the air, a move that will require 345 counties around the country to clamp down on pollution over the coming years. But the agency ignored the calls of its own scientific advisers for a steeper pollution cut. The EPA will lower the ozone standard to 75 parts ...
Topics: air pollution, health, news, ozone, politics, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

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