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EPA Restores Scientific Integrity to How We Define Clean Air

May 21, 2009

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
airpollution, EPA, ozone, science

Kudos to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for announcing today that EPA would abandon a change imposed by the Bush administration that politicized the agency's responsibility to define clean air based solely on the best understanding of science and health information. Jackson...continued

Science Decider in Chief

March 17, 2008

Posted by John Walke in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

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bushadministration, cleanairact, environmentallaw, EPA, ozone, ozonestandard, presidentbush, science

The Clean Air Act reserves to "the judgment of the [EPA] Administrator" alone, as a matter of law, the revision of the secondary “public welfare” standard for ozone and other air pollution. This legal standard must be based on what...continued

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John Walke
Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney
Washington, D.C.
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