AGENCY SPURS DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL, LONG-TERM CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS

EPA is seeking to spur development of long-term models that can predict how climate change could affect local air quality in order to aid air quality planners in accounting for such changes, according to a recently announced $5 million research grant competition. The research will fill a gap in existing climate change models, says a source with EPA's National Center for Environmental Research (NCER), which is managing the grant competition. "In general, the current modeling tools used in air quality...