EPA air line doesn't fly, scholar contends

greatest in quantity of the state doesn't suited the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's of recent origin ozone standard, and the American Lung Association flunk 27 of 34 North Carolina counties included in its 2003 State of the Air report. These evaluations are misleading, says Joel Schwartz, who vies that air-quality control is dominated by the agency of process and too focused upon expensive, ineffective remedies. Schwartz is a visiting scholar with the Washington, D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute and is affiliated with the Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation.

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BNC: What is the fresh standard?

Schwartz: The eight-hour ozone standard measures