President Biden had the opportunity to fix the Trump administration's decision to keep in place outdated health standards for smog. Instead the EPA is punting its decision about imposing tougher air quality limits until after the 2024 election.
We need better, more timely information on death and illness caused by heat waves, the deadliest climate-fueled disasters. Not just one off reports nearly a year after the fact.Regan’s decision came two months after the agency’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, an independent panel of experts, concluded that the current ozone standard of 70 parts per billion “is not sufficiently protective of public health.
The agency defends the decision to redo the analysis with the excuse that the latest science was not included in its prior assessments and that a new review will be more thorough and unassailable. It says there is no hidden agenda behind the do-over. But this action comes awfully close to President Obama’s cynical and science-denyingto stop the EPA from issuing tougher ozone standards so as not to hurt his reelection chances.
Reviewing and updating air quality standards every five years to reflect the latest science, as required by the Clean Air Act, is one of the most important environmental actions a president can take. But ozone is such a widespread and hard-to-clean pollutant it’s one of the most highly politicized too.
More protective standards, as the current science demands, will force the nation’s polluting industries, including big factories, oil and gas operations and power plants, to do more to clean up. Business interests and local officials don’t like that, and as a result, presidents of both parties have chosen to disregard science and delay action. It’s disappointing to see the Biden administration join that list.
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