NEW OZONE RESEARCH COULD BOOST EPA BENEFITS ESTIMATES IN AIR RULES

EPA may increase its economic benefits estimates of air rules that reduce ozone levels, in light of new agency-funded studies that demonstrate a link between ozone exposure and premature deaths, sources familiar with the research say. Scientists and public health advocates say the peer-reviewed studies are significant because EPA assigns far more value in its cost-benefit analyses to measures that save lives rather than measures that simply improve health. Three studies published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology...