NAS OZONE REVIEW MAY FORCE EPA TO LOWER KEY RULES' BENEFITS ESTIMATES

EPA's decision to have the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) peer review a key ozone study may weaken pending air standards by preventing the agency from claiming health benefits from reducing ozone in upcoming air and mobile source rules while the study is undergoing review, agency staff and environmentalists say. But EPA air managers say they will not zero out benefits in the rules during the NAS peer review and will instead include the best estimates available when the rules...