The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held hearings on its new proposed ozone standards. The existing standard of 75 parts per billion (ppb) for ground-level ozone, a primary component of ...

US Environmental Protection Agency statements on health benefits from lowering the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards grossly misrepresent what EPA actually estimates as possible benefits ...

An NRC committee will evaluate the scientific and technical bases of approaches used by EPA for estimating ozone mortality risk reduction and associated benefits of health-based standards over time.

Concern over the depletion of the ozone layer started in the 1970s with the suggestion that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons could reach the stratosphere and cause ozone loss 1. Research activities ...

In 1997–2014, the IBRD supported Argentina to reduce ozone depletion and comply with its international chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halon phase-out obligations. 27 private enterprises and two public ...

The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol entered into force this week, mandating the phase down of super climate pollutants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). The amendment has now been ratified ...

Ozone therapy is a controversial alternative medicine practice that involves using ozone gas to fight disease. Currently, there is not enough evidence to conclude it is effective or safe for medical ...

Daren Bakst is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently held hearings on its new proposed ozone ...

WASHINGTON, DC, July 28-- US Environmental Protection Agency statements on health benefits from lowering the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards grossly misrepresent what EPA actually ...

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