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EPA Unveils Tougher Smog Standards

HeadlineJan 08, 2010

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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