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 Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. 3 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 4 Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. 5 American Lung Association, Washington, DC. 6 The Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA. Reprint requests to Mr. Daniel Greenbaum, President, Health Effects Institute, Charlestown Navy Yard, 120 Second Avenue, Boston, MA 02129-4533 (e-mail: [email protected]). EPIDEMIOLOGY AT THE CENTER OF A HIGHLY-VISIBLE NATIONAL DEBATE