Word: epa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...EPA has joined the critics in calling for the release of the data...
According to the Globe, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used the study, conducted by Associate Professor of Medicine and Environmental Epidemiology Douglas W. Dockery and Associate Professor of Environmental Health Joel D. Schwartz, as evidence in advocating stricter limitations on airborne pollution...
...have asked Harvard to make the studies public," Carol Browner, EPA administrator, told the Globe. "I will always err on the side of public disclosure...
Browner told the Globe that 19 of the 21 scientists questioned by the EPA about air pollution advocated limiting fine particles...
Browner also told the Globe the EPA based its decision to recommend new pollution controls on dozens of other studies besides the Dockery-Schwartz study. However, according to the Globe, only the Dockery-Schwartz research and one other study examined the effects of inhaling fine particles over a period of years