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"The standards are being set based on this study. If there are actual health effects, then it is fine," Kovacs said. "If you say you are going to limit highway construction and put serious limitations on and virtually halt industrial productions, you have to have some basis of fact."
"What they have disclosed are the results that they want to talk about," Kovacs said. "We want our researchers to analyze the data for themselves. The EPA can believe what they want to believe."
The study, called the Pope study after its chief researcher, was conducted approximately six years ago to determine whether or not new health standards would have a beneficial effect on public health, according to Kovacs.
After concluding that this was in fact the case, Kovacs said that an independent research group analyzed the results and estimated that the government could save 40,000 lives every year with an expenditure of $50 billion.
Kovacs said that many different people have been trying to get a copy of the study to see if the effects are in fact verifiable, but attempts have been unsuccessful.