CASAC Research Scientist Attacks Panel Chairman’s NAAQS Review Shift

Mark Frampton, the sole research scientist on EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory committee (CASAC), is lambasting panel Chairman Tony Cox’s controversial new approach to assessing air pollution science for reviewing the agency’s particulate matter (PM) air standards, saying it undermines and misstates the latest data on PM. Conclusions about the uncertainty on PM and its adverse health effects that Cox outlined in a March 7 draft letter to EPA do not represent a consensus of the panel, and in some...