[sustran] new U.S. Air Quality Standards

[Institute for Transportation and Development Policy]

U.S. Cleaning Up its Act

        The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week issued tighter
pollution standards on ground level ozone and suspended particulate matter;
two emissions directly linked to motor vehicles.   President Clinton
approved the new regulations, sighting the danger to children, particularly
those with asthma.  "I think kids aught to be healthy," he said.  The EPA
sited a growing body of scientific evidence that 15,000 people die every
year due to complications in illnesses from small particles, and hundreds of
thousands of athsma attacks are triggered by exposure.  The new ozone
standard reduces tolerable levels of ozone exposure from 120 to 80 parts per
million over an 8 hour period.  The  standards for microparticulates of 2.5
microns in diameter or less are the first ever to be imposed, and call for
daily averages not to exceed 65 micrograms per cubic meter of air, and
annual averages not to exceed 15 micrograms per cubic meter.  The Congress
now has 60 days to try and overturn the new standards, which were introduced
despite vociferous and well financed opposition from highway, oil, and other
industrial lobbyists.  

[Taken from June 26 New York Times]


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