«EPA clearly understands that many municipalities need more time to implement
the current ozone standards, and yet the agency continues its heedless rush to lower them further.
After promulgation of
the current ozone standard in 2008, EPA, two years later, called a temporary halt to the nationwide implementation of the standard in response to the severe recession prevailing at the time.
«We're reducing emissions at the same time, but tightening
the current ozone standard to near unachievable levels would serve as a self - inflicted wound to the U.S. economy at the worst possible time.
Not exact matches
In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than
current standards demand while using no
ozone - depleting CFCs.
They indicate that higher
ozone concentrations, even at levels below
current air quality
standards in most of the world, have significant negative effects on worker productivity.
Health - related costs of the
current effects of
ozone air pollution exceeding national
standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from
ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154
The proposed new
standard would cut the allowable threshold for ground - level
ozone to between 65 and 70 parts per billion, down from the
current 75 parts per billion.
Health - related costs of the
current effects of
ozone air pollution exceeding national
standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from
ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.
After years of delay, the Obama Administration faced a court - ordered December 1 deadline to update the
current 2008
standard on ground - level
ozone, a by - product of burning fossil fuels.
Now, they are coming for oil and gas development and manufacturing through the just - announced 626 - page
ozone regulations, which will require states to dramatically reduce
ozone emissions from the
current 75 parts per billion (ppb) to a range of 65 to 70 ppb — though environmental groups want a 60 ppb
standard, which may be the final rule.