It didn't take long for the industry to get their panties in a bunch about the EPA's proposed air pollution standards for gas and oil production. Anyone surprised the industry is trying to downplay the EPA statements about the benefits of tighter ozone requirements? It's all about money folks!
They don't think our health has value.
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Of course they don't care. Does anyone wonder why the industry executives don't live anywhere near gas and oil production? If it was in their neighborhood or next to their child's school, it would be a different story.
ReplyDeleteThe American Petroleum Institute (API) doesn’t think the EPA should include ozone mortality in its calculations of the benefits from reducing ozone in the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteI didn’t realize the value of having air you can breathe without it killing you was so low.
This is clearly shaping up to be a knockdown/dragout between the EPA and O&G. Who wins depends on us.
ReplyDeleteWe need to come out in large numbers when they hold the public hearing in Dallas.
ReplyDeletepage 120 of the analysis report "Although EPA has not quantified these
ReplyDeleteeffects in benefits analyses
previously, the scientific literature is suggestive that exposure to ozone
is also associated with
chronic respiratory damage and premature aging of the lungs."
page 120 of the analysis report "Although EPA has not quantified these
ReplyDeleteeffects in benefits analyses
previously, the scientific literature is suggestive that exposure to ozone
is also associated with
chronic respiratory damage and premature aging of the lungs."