"irate" EPA scientists/soot & dust pollution vs bushmilhousegang

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-epa4feb04,0,3876829.story?coll=la-home-headlines


EPA Panel Advises Agency Chief to Think Again
# Irate scientists say the administrator ignored or misconstrued their recommendations in proposed new rules on soot and dust pollution.



In an unprecedented action, the Environmental Protection Agency's own scientific panel on Friday challenged the agency's proposed public health standards governing soot and dust.

The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, mandated by Congress to review such proposals, asserted Friday that the standards put forward by EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson ignored most of the committee's earlier recommendations and could lead to additional heart attacks, lung cancer and respiratory ailments.

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It was the first time since the committee was established under the Clean Air Act nearly 30 years ago that the committee had asked the EPA to change course, according to EPA staffers and committee members.

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Cal/EPA's air pollution epidemiology chief, Bart Ostro, charged during the teleconference that the EPA had incorporated "last-minute opinions and edits" by the White House Office of Management and Budget that "circumvented the entire peer review process."

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was that the same handsome but full of crap OMB guy that was on W.J. recently?

they usually kill off scientists with spine. watch your backs.

how is the air where you live. I live 140 miles or so out in the ocean and the air ain't clean.