Proposed ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards: Rulemaking and litigation

Since 1997, the US EPA has been trying to strengthen the Clean Air Act's requirements for ambient concentrations of ground-level ozone, a primary cause of smog and other health-debilitating air pollution. In the latest installment of this multi-decade regulatory effort, and after preliminarily...

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Published inAdministrative & Regulatory Law News Vol. 40; no. 4; p. 7
Main Author Craig, Robin Kundis
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago American Bar Association 01.07.2015
Subjects
Air cleanliness
Air pollution
Air quality
Clean Air Act-US
Emissions
Environmental protection
Industrial plant emissions
Litigation
Outdoor air quality
Ozone
Pollutants
Pollution control
Proposals
Public health
Quality standards
Regulatory agencies
Revisions
Smog
VOCs
Volatile organic compounds
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Summary:Since 1997, the US EPA has been trying to strengthen the Clean Air Act's requirements for ambient concentrations of ground-level ozone, a primary cause of smog and other health-debilitating air pollution. In the latest installment of this multi-decade regulatory effort, and after preliminarily releasing its proposed new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone on Nov 25, 2014, EPA formally published the proposed new ozone standards in the Federal Register on Dec 17, 2014. Since Congress enacted the current version of the Clean Air Act in 1970, improving science has steadily revealed that the initial NAAQS were not stringent enough to protect human health, leading EPA to progressively revise those standards over time. The ozone NAAQS are no exception. EPA is still litigating the follow-on consequences of the 2008 ozone NAAQS revision; it published its final rule for State Implementation Plan requirements for those 7-year-old NAAQS in March 2015.
ISSN:1544-1547
2163-1743