1. SCIENCE SCOPE: EPA Air Review Draws Fire.
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Stokstad, Erik
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AIR quality standards , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTAL engineering , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *COMMITTEES , *SCIENTISTS , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
This article reports that activists are criticizing a proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to speed up its regular review of air-quality standards. By law, EPA must revisit its National Ambient Air Quality Standards every 5 years. Staff scientists evaluate the latest research and propose ranges for new standards, which are then reviewed by the agency's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Because EPA regularly misses its deadline and gets sued, an internal EPA committee proposed several suggestions in for speeding up the process. EPA chief scientist George Gray said that the idea behind this proposal is not to have the policy drive the science.
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- 2006
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