Wehrum calls for dramatic acceleration of NAAQS reviews

Bill Wehrum, head of EPA's Office of Air & Radiation, is calling for dramatic acceleration of the process the agency uses to review its national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), aiming for completed reviews in as little as three and a half to four years -- a far shorter timeframe than the agency typically achieves. "We have to reinvent" what we do when reviewing the agency's six NAAQS, Wehrum told a recent meeting of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee...