Capacity Limits May Hinder EPA Plan To Finish PM NAAQS Review By 2020

December 12, 2018
Members of EPA's overhauled Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), dozens of former panelists, clean air advocates and even some major industry groups are warning that CASAC lacks the capacity to properly review the agency's federal particulate matter (PM) standards, hindering EPA's plan to finish the review by 2020. The concerns, raised in comments at the first day of a Dec. 12-13 CASAC meeting on the ongoing review of the PM air limits, follow other criticisms of the Trump administration's...


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