EPA Chief Calls for Retaining Particle Pollution Limits (1)

Federal air quality standards for airborne particle pollution won’t change—despite the advice of EPA’s own staff and many independent scientists—under EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s proposed review of them, released Tuesday.

Wheeler said he drew on the advice of the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean air advisers to retain the current standards that the Obama administration set in 2012. One of the seven advisers urged Wheeler to set more protective standards, while the rest advised keeping the current limits.

“We believe this threshold is protective based on the scientific data we have,” Wheeler told news reporters ahead of the release of the ...