EPA Advisers Can’t Agree on Revising Ozone Limits (Corrected)

The EPA’s clean air advisers failed on Dec. 6 to agree whether the latest scientific evidence favors keeping in place national caps on ozone pollution.

One science adviser on the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee said he thought the current ozone limits of 70 parts per billion needed to be lowered to better protect public health, especially that of children.

But others were uncomfortable with calling for tighter standards owing to the lack of evidence.

Majority support for keeping intact the 2015 standards suggests Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler is unlikely to change them next year, despite the views ...