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Proposed ozone standard would devastate US economy, API warns

09/27/2010
A US Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reduce the national primary ozone standard to 60 ppb from 75 ppb would devastate the US economy by forcing most of the country to meet stringent standards which now are imposed of its most heavily populated areas, the American Petroleum Institute warned."We all know that EPA cannot consider economics in considering standards," Howard Feldman, API's director of regulatory and scientific affairs, said in a Sept. 21 teleconference with reporters. "But it cannot ignore them. There's a real cost and real significance to this."He cited a study released Sept. 15 by the Manufacturers Alliance predicted—if EPA adopts the pr...
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