Critics (Sen. D Fischer, R-NE)of EPA's plan to reduce ground-level ozone cite economic, actual costs

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/critics-of-epa-s-plan-to-reduce-ground-level-ozone/article_46b65c54-4896-5df9-b6b4-6e5c74f3e3f5.html

POSTED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 12:38 AM, WED SEP 2, 2015.
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau

COLUMBUS, Neb. — Omaha’s electric utility joined Nebraska business leaders to warn of dire economic consequences from a proposed federal rule to cut ozone pollution Tuesday during a Senate field hearing.

Meanwhile, a retired public health professor from Omaha who suffers from asthma provided the lone voice in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce ground-level ozone.

Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., was the only member of a U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee to attend the hearing at Central Community College in Columbus. But the testimony will become part of the committee’s official record on the highly controversial EPA rule.

The agency wants to cut ground-level ozone pollution from the current limit of 75 parts per billion to a yet-to-be-determined level between 65 and 70 parts per billion. Ozone, considered the most widespread form of air pollution, results when emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks react with sunlight.

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