CASAC Chair Cox decries ‘bogus’ COVID-19 air pollution study

April 28, 2020
Tony Cox, chairman of EPA’s influential Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), is attacking as “bogus” a recent Harvard University study linking exposure to elevated levels of air pollution with worsened health outcomes from COVID-19 infection. Cox made his remarks in an interview published April 27 in the Washington Examiner , which also featured a defense of the study by co-author Francesca Dominici, a senior researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. An avowed skeptic of EPA’s...


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