{"id":9324,"date":"2014-12-08T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:03:25","slug":"5-reasons-epa-is-right-about-tougher-smog-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2014\/12\/08\/5-reasons-epa-is-right-about-tougher-smog-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"5 reasons EPA is right about tougher smog standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>This post\u00a0originally appeared on\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/5-reasons-epa-right-about-tougher-smog-standards\">EDF Voices<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.edf.org\/cdn\/farfuture\/QB5LnjnnEbeTm_5u1gUFwIIdvgUfjQFLvvzV-rMKF-k\/mtime:1417728570\/sites\/default\/files\/smog_378x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"243\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert S. Donovan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">The Environmental Protection Agency last week released much-awaited, tighter<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/airquality\/ozonepollution\/actions.html\">standards<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for smog pollution, common-sense protections that will save lives and safeguard human health from one of the nation\u2019s most ubiquitous air pollutants \u2013 ozone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">As expected, it took but a few hours before critics lashed out, while ignoring key facts behind EPA\u2019s proposal. Here are five reasons EPA is on the right track:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\"><strong>1. The current standard doesn\u2019t do enough to protect human health<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">About half our population, some 156 million Americans, are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/stronger-ozone-standards-will-secure-healthier-longer-lives-millions-americans\">at risk from smog<\/a>, or ground-level ozone, because of age, health conditions, or the work that they do. They include more than 25 million people with asthma, 74 million children, 40 million senior citizens, and nearly 17 million outdoor workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Our current standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb) doesn\u2019t adequately protect human health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">EPA\u2019s new proposal, issued under a court-ordered deadline, is a step in the right direction \u2013 even if it doesn\u2019t, in our view, go far enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Consider this: The proposed 65 to 70 ppb limit would prevent between 320,000 and 960,000 asthma attacks in children and up to 1 million lost school days. It would also prevent up to 180,000 lost work days and an estimated 750 to 4,300 premature deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\"><strong>2. Clean air is good for the economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">By law, the issue of cost cannot be factored in when setting a health-based standard. But even if costs were considered, the conclusion remains that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/cleaner-air-gave-americans-4300-pay-raise\">clean air is good for the economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Since 1970, the benefits of the Clean Air Act have outweighed costs by 30 to 1, and a similar trend is expected to hold true also for the proposed smog standards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">In fact, in Texas, the state agency charged with protecting\u00a0public health\u00a0and natural resources, concluded that Houston\u2019s gross domestic product<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayareahoustonmag.com\/houstons-air-quality-economic-improvements-go-hand-hand\/\">increased as smog concentrations dropped<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\"><strong>3. EPA\u2019s action is backed by science<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">The proposed standard, set to be finalized in October 2015, has been recommended repeatedly by EPA\u2019s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, an independent panel of leading scientists, as well as by medical and public health professionals nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">There\u2019s overwhelming evidence showing that smog affects millions at the existing standard of 75 ppb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">In fact, EPA is also seeking comments on a health standard that would limit exposure to 60 ppb \u2013 a standard that would provide the strongest protections for Americans and be in line with what groups such as the American Lung Association recommend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\"><strong>4. Smog pollution measures are nothing new<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">The United States has already taken steps over the past few years that help to cost-effectively reduce smog pollution and help restore healthy air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Those protections include the\u00a0Tier 3 tailpipe standards, supported by the U.S. auto industry, which will slash smog-forming pollution from new cars beginning in model year 2017. Meanwhile, EPA\u2019s proposed<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/climate\/act-now-key-opportunity-support-carbon-limits\">Clean Power Plan<\/a>\u00a0 will reduce smog-forming pollutants from power plant smokestacks nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">These standards will work in tandem to cut pollution and spur new innovation. America has shown time and time again that we can innovate and come up with solutions for industry that make new regulations affordable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\"><strong>5. It\u2019s time we catch up with other developed nations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Once a leader in environmental protection, the U.S. now lags behind other developed and developing nations in the protectiveness of air quality standards for smog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Numerous industrialized countries have adopted ozone standards that are far more protective than the current standard in the U.S. The European Union\u2019s limit today is 60 ppb and Canada\u2019s is 63 ppb, for example.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">Some of these countries are doing as well, or better, economically than the U.S.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 14px\/20px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;margin: 0px 0px 25px;padding: 0px;border: 0px currentColor;color: #000000;text-indent: 0px;letter-spacing: normal;vertical-align: baseline;background-color: #ffffff\">For this and all other reasons mentioned here, EPA\u2019s new smog standards will help us breathe easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post\u00a0originally appeared on\u00a0EDF Voices) The Environmental Protection Agency last week released much-awaited, tighter\u00a0standards\u00a0for smog pollution, common-sense protections that will save lives and safeguard human health from one of the nation\u2019s most ubiquitous air pollutants \u2013 ozone. 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