EPA OZONE REVIEW COULD UNDERMINE OMB QUERIES ON CONTROL BENEFITS

Over opposition from White House regulatory officials, EPA scientists are supporting a causal connection between ozone exposure and shortened human life-spans, a connection which regulators could use to justify upcoming regulatory controls on emissions sources, agency sources say. EPA Oct. 4 released a portion of its draft "criteria document" on ozone, which concludes, "The epidemiological evidence continues to support likely causal associations between acute ambient ozone exposure and increased risk of acute respiratory morbidity and mortality, based on the assessment...