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Swordsmyth
06-25-2018, 04:17 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is kicking off the process of reviewing the nation’s ground-level ozone pollution standard, a project likely to take years.
In a notice due for publication in the Federal Register Tuesday, the EPA says it’s taking comments from the public to prepare to initial documents for the review to lay out the plan for the review process and the scientific literature on ozone, a component of smog.
The review will take place under new standards that President Trump (http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump) set in an April memo. He instructed the EPA, when setting new air quality rules, to consider factors like “adverse public health or other effects that may result from implementation” of the rules and the extent to which areas have background levels of the pollutants that aren’t caused by human activity.

Both factors have long been pushed by industry in an attempt to get more lenient air pollution standards written.

More at: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/394031-epa-to-consider-changes-to-smog-standard