Air pollution: EPA standard.

Air Pollution and Health: Bridging the Gap from Sources to Health Outcomes

EPA has established National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six principal air pollutants or "criteria pollutants" that include carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter in two size ranges [less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and less than 10 μm (PM10)], ozone, and sulfur dioxide (http://www.epa.gov/air/criteria.html). While associations have been identified bet...

Hazardous Air Pollution Prevention (HAP2) Project Final Report to EPA NESCAUM and NEWMOA

For the past three years the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) and the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) have been working cooperatively on a project to incorporate pollution prevention (P2) into compliance with the national emission standards for hazardous air pollution (NESHAP) control requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). Th...

Introduction: special issue of air quality, atmosphere and health for air pollution and health: bridging the gap from sources-to-health outcomes

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for six principal air pollutants (criteria pollutants): carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter in two size ranges [less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and less than 10 μm (PM10)], ozone, and sulfur dioxide (http://www.epa. gov/air/criteria.html). While associations have been i...

Enstrom’s Expose of Air Pollution Epidemiology Problems

Dr James Enstrom’s article in the January-March 2017 issue of Dose Response titled “Fine Particulate Matter and Total Mortality in Cancer Prevention Study Cohort Reanalysis” exposes United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-sponsored air pollution epidemiological research misconduct, characterized by a history of using small associations observational epidemiology to project grand cla...

Analysis of primary fine particle national ambient air quality standard metrics.

In accordance with the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently reviewing its National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter, which are required to provide an adequate margin of safety to populations, including susceptible subgroups. Based on the latest scientific, health, and technical information about particle pollution, EPA staff recommends e...

EPA Draft Regulatory Impact Analysis: Control of Emissions of Air Pollution from Highway Heavy-Duty Engines DRAFT