Revised Ozone Standard Due by March 12, 2008
EPA is scheduled to announce by March 12, 2008, its final rule for a new ground-level ozone standard, last updated more than a decade ago.
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Gulf War Illness: It's Real, Afflicts About 200K Vets, Says Panel
As the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, new light has been shed on the environmental health impacts of the 1991 Gulf War. On Nov. 17, 2008, the Congressionally-mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses released a major report which concluded that from 175,000 to 210,000 of the nearly 700,000 U.S. veterans of the first Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness.
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TOOLBOX: Covering the Health Effects of Climate Change
How health may be affected; accusation that Bush administration drastically altered CDC testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Oct. 23, 2007.
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Labor Dept. Uses OMB To Aid Secret OSHA Midnight Deregulation
The Bush White House is rushing through — secretly — a midnight regulation that would hobble the next administration's efforts to regulate workplace environmental risks.
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New Science Clarifies NO2 Health Effects
EPA reviews its health-based standard for NO2 as an air pollutant, and has issued a science assessment of health effects.
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