CASAC Majority Endorses EPA Staff Advice To Retain 2015 Ozone Limits

EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) is endorsing EPA staff’s recommendation to retain the agency’s existing federal ozone standards, voting 6-1 to keep the “primary” health-based limit in place, and unanimously backing the current “secondary” standard that is designed to protect the environment. At the conclusion of a four-day meeting in Cary, NC, on Dec. 6, the majority of the seven-member panel voted in favor of EPA staff’s conclusion that the current primary national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS),...