EPA Proposes Tighter Particulate Air Pollution Standards

EPA Proposes Tighter Particulate Air Pollution Standards

Smoking Policies Tighten in Halls of Academe As the fall 2012 semester gets under way, at least 744 U.S. colleges and universities have made their campuses completely smoke free, indoors and out, and nearly threequarters of those have banned all forms of tobacco on campus. Ty Patterson, executive director of the National Center for Tobacco Policy, told the Christian Science Monitor that many co...

Air pollution: EPA standard.

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Particulate air pollution standards and morbidity and mortality: case study.

Received for publication May 23, 2001, and accepted for publication August 30, 2001. Abbreviations: CASAC, Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; EPA, US Environmental Protection Agency; PM 10 , standard for coarse particulate matter; PM 2.5 , standard for fine particulate matter. 1 Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, MA. 2 Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US Environmental Prote...

Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Mortality

Health effects of particulate air pollution.

In the 1980's it was generally felt that particulate air pollution concentrations in the United States were not a hazard to the public health. However, in the early 1990's the application of econometric time-series studies and prospective cohort studies suggested increased mortality associated with acute (daily) and chronic (decades) exposures to particulate air pollution commonly observed in t...