Clean Air Watch: EPA Smog Plan Compromises Public Health to Save Industry Moneyhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080312/pl_usnw/clean_air_watch__epa_smog_plan_compromises_public_health_to_save_industry_moneyPRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The non-profit Clean Air Watch today assailed a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision to ignore the agency's science advisers in setting a new national health standard for smog.
Once again, the Bush administration has chosen to disregard the advice of the EPAs own independent science advisers, who had unanimously recommended a tougher standard than that selected by the agency, said Frank ODonnell, president of Clean Air Watch. ODonnell noted that the administration also rejected the advisers advice in 2006 regarding national standards for particle soot.
The EPA is supposed to set these standards based solely on science.
Unfortunately, real science appears to have been tainted by political science, ODonnell added.
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