EPA ADVISORS PLAN TO URGE AGENCY TO FOLLOW PM RECOMMENDATION

U.S. EPA science advisors are taking the unprecedented step of urging EPA to revise its proposed air quality standards for particulate matter (PM), after the agency declined to follow the advisors' recommendations to tighten the annual standard for the pollutant. During a Feb. 3 teleconference, the majority of members on EPA's Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC), which plays a congressionally mandated role in EPA's process for setting new air quality standards, announced they had decided to write a letter...