Today, the EPA announced that it finalized a rule keeping in place the current ozone standard, which clearly does not protect health.
This “new” ozone standard which doesn’t change the standard, is so bad for health that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Thoracic Society, the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Association of City and County Health Officials, along with 14 other medical, nursing, and health organizations, joined together to submit a public comment to the EPA.
Here is our blog from August 31 with testimony at the EPA’s ozone hearing from our medical education advisor, Dr. Anne Mellinger-Birdsong.
