The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held hearings on its new proposed ozone standards. The existing standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb) for ground-level ozone, a primary component of ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule to limit surface-level ozone pollution might not have the health benefits the agency claims, according to nearly two-dozen ...

Short-term exposure to smog, or ozone, is clearly linked to premature deaths that should be taken into account when measuring the health benefits of reducing air pollution, a National Academy of ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is overstating the benefits of new rules to further tighten ambient air quality standards regarding ozone, according to a study by NERA Economic Consulting.

The global treaty that headed off destruction of earth's protective ozone layer has also prevented major disruption of global rainfall patterns, according to a new study in the Journal of Climate. The ...

All diseases, including pain syndromes, cancer, arthritis and autoimmune disorders, share a commonality: lack of tissue oxygen and decreased cellular mitochondrial function. Mitochondria are the cell ...

SACRAMENTO — It is time to strengthen the nation’s smog limits to improve the health of millions of people who suffer the ill effects of air pollution, dozens of environmentalists, doctors, asthmatic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is not keeping Administrator Christie Whitman’s commitment to issue regulations based on the best possible science. It is reissuing Administrator Carol Browner’s ...

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol entered into force this week, mandating the phase down of super climate pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The amendment has now been ratified ...

Daren Bakst is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held hearings on its new proposed ozone ...

An NRC committee will evaluate the scientific and technical bases of approaches used by EPA for estimating ozone mortality risk reduction and associated benefits of health-based standards over time.