The EPA has tightened air pollution standards...I can breathe easier already!  But most think it will be met with sharp criticism from health experts and some members of Congress because it conflicts with recommendations of two agency's scientific advisory panels.

The new EPA standard will lower allowable concentration of ozone in the air to no more than 75 parts per billion (the old standard was 80 parts per billion).  The science advisory boards said that it should be 60 - 70 parts per billion to protect our nation's most vulnerable citizens (elderly, asthmatics, children, those with respiratory illness). 

While the decision seems to fall short of what is needed it nevertheless obligates nearly 50% of the monitored counties to make air quality improvement.

Most clean air advocates would call this a move in the right direction...I hope.  There are always compromises...political or otherwise.  But surely, this will be met with some criticism.

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