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January 8, 2010

EPA Unveils Tougher Smog Standards
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The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled new standards for
regulating smog. The “primary” standard for smog levels would be set at
sixty to seventy parts per billion. The standard falls in line with
proposals from agency scientists that the Bush administration rejected
in setting its rules in 2008. Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch said
the move could become “the single most important environmental decision
that the EPA makes this year.”



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